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Issue Details: First known date: 2018... 2018 Duck Soup and Swansongs
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'‘Witty, finely crafted, genuinely funny, Carey’s poems surprise with their clever double takes on society’s faults and foibles. At once erudite and bitingly topical, Carey has a keen eye for the humorous detail and the deeper resonances of global stupidity. Carey shows himself adept at both the brief political quip like the Tony Abbot-inspired “Captain’s Pick Haiku” or the longer reflective analysis of presidential egomania in “Another Day at the Office”. I can think of very few poets with such a capacity for sustained humour and inventiveness. Underlying Carey’s poems is a clear-sighted voice that registers the follies, pretensions and violence of humanity.’ - Peter Boyle   (Publication summary)

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    • Port Adelaide, Port Adelaide - Enfield area, Adelaide - Northwest, Adelaide, South Australia,: Ginninderra Press , 2018 .
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      Extent: 104p.
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      • Published 1 February 2018

      ISBN: 9781760414832

Works about this Work

Review : John Carey's Duck Soup and Swansongs Les Wicks , 2018 single work review
— Appears in: Communion Literary Magazine , June no. 9 2018;

— Review of Duck Soup and Swansongs John Carey , 2018 selected work poetry
Review : John Carey's Duck Soup and Swansongs Les Wicks , 2018 single work review
— Appears in: Communion Literary Magazine , June no. 9 2018;

— Review of Duck Soup and Swansongs John Carey , 2018 selected work poetry
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