Mitchell, now in his late 60s, is something of a father figure and cult idol among the poetic Left in England. As he notes in his acknowledgments, his recent work has centered on theater writing for children, and that pastime has left its mark on his writing-if this collection is any evidence. There has always been a tendency in Mitchell's verse towards the simplistic, the propagandistic, and the disposable, but those vices have usually been l...
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