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Baker, Kenneth (ed.), 1980. I Have No Gun But I Can Spit, London: Methuen

The Pinprick Master

Foul, scurrilous, abusive, satirical, witty and barbed.

A selection of poetry written with bile.

"Hatred is by far the longest pleasure
Men love in haste, but they detest at leisure".

Don Juan, Lord Byron

Baker writes, in his introduction, "In an age of wanton violence the lethal accuracy of the poet is as much to be valued as ever." A pity then that contemporary poetry is virtually indistinguishable from Gardener's Question Time. This volume is a rebuke.

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