Or Queen - the figureheads is what I mean per se...

This is J. M. Coetzee on Les Murray

http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2011/sep/29/angry-genius-l...

Does this knock him off his perch for you? Kick in the shins? Less of Les. Or, back a step, is this what Coetzee intends by this article? Challenging assessment whatever you think, namely this:

"None of the poems I have singled out as among Murray’s best dates from later than 1992. Since that date he has—aside from the Collected Poems of 2002—published five collections of—in my view—lesser work..."

Keelhauled!

Or if you want some more full-on shots across the bough, try this from 1 Oct 2011 AP conference in Newcastle

http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/17612651

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