Wild Court

An international poetry journal based in the English Department of King’s College London

John Clegg

  • Marie Antoinette’s mock-peasant hamlet – the charges against Les Murray

    Marie Antoinette’s mock-peasant hamlet – the charges against Les Murray

    John Clegg Les Murray is Teflon to generalisation. Ages ago in Areté, Jeremy Noel-Tod made an overview of his poetry which was acerbic and funny and rigorous and contained only one wildly unfair sentence: after quoting a complaint of Murray’s against the expectations of an ‘enforced [literary] style’:   In these times of stylistic poly-tolerance,…