Friday 14 September 2018

Dave Coates on Toby Martinez de las Rivas

Dave Coates' reviews are always worth reading, but this is even more thought-provoking (and no less well written) than usual. I have to say I really don't know the poetry of Toby Martinez de las Rivas at all, but Coates makes his case very well. I'll have to read around it a bit further.

Incidentally, wasn't the black sun a fascist and/or Nazi symbol?

1 comment:

Clarissa Aykroyd said...

You should probably read the LA Review interview with TMDLR which is referenced, as some of the quotes have been severely taken out of context and thus distorted (particularly the one about "England", in which the poet was actually talking about the effects of Brexit, not of a dream of a racially purified nation.)

But then, I'm not too fond of character assassinations, and that's very much what this seemed to me to be.