I'll Howl Before You Bury Me

"Sir Richard should not be disappointed. I'll Howl Before You Bury Me, Liam Guilar's second collection of poetry, is rich with a sensuality and love of language that invests both myth and the modern day with vibrancy and beauty. The vivid descriptions, the evocative allusions, the ever-present musicality in the lines, the continual laughter, the self-deprecatory chuckles as Sir Richard scribbles in the margins of tradition trying to write his great erotic poem: 'he wants silk but silk, he knows, is clichd and. what's worse, is really not that smooth and thigh sounds too much like a piece of chicken' and his easy connection with the natural world, are a continual delight. As Guilar writes at the end of 'Kemp's Jig': 'Let him take you beyond the city walls, to places you have never been. No passports are required. You'll need no phrasebook for the welcome by the fire at journey's end." - Peter McFarlane