Spurious, Glorious
Lavinia Greenlaw: Three Long Poems, 13 September 2018
“... a literary Rolodex on the page. Along with Auden, there are mentions of Shelley, Larkin, Forster, James and others. Sullivan’s handling of them has a curious effect. They’re neither looming nor vital. Like statues in the park, they’re just there. The looser second section of the poem consists of dissolve after dissolve in which being ‘half aware’ is ... ”