Robin Purves: Review of
'me generation'

A BOOKLET of work produced between poems, Peter Manson's me generation (Writers Forum; GBP2) is not that first, properly representative collection of his poetry for which his many admirers visibly long. It is, however, the gladdest and most various publication by a Scottish poet since Tom Leonard's Intimate Voices, and is unmatched this year in the laughter it induces by its infinite invention and its fearless will-to-stupidity. Bench Marks (Alfred David Editions; GBP5) by Drew Milne offers an estimable advance even on his previous array, Sheet Mettle. Four sequences composed of eight-line stanzas which twist the private parts of personal complaint by sheer stress and application of equal and opposite torques. Robin Purves, The Herald, 10 Dec 1998.

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