Embracing The Razor

Tender Poems On The Death Of His Wife, Witty Philip Larkin Apercus, Meditations On The Spiritual Need Of Australians For Europe, Hard-eyed Satire As A Political Fixer Dismisses As Out-of-date The Instruments Of Torture In The Tower Of London: John Uptons Range Is Broad And His Poetic Skills Accomplished. Theres Also Wit, Along With Rollicking Humour And Love Of The Absurd, With Jealous Othello Transposed Into Sydneys Posh Eastern Suburbs, And A Defrocked Priest With A Gambling Habit Sacked And Clerking At The Tab. Sickness, Grief, Witnessing The Coming Of Death, Love, Travelling, They Might Never Have Had So Much Dignity Granted Them.