The poems presented in Mishaps are highly varied, impressively
experimental, sensitive and reflective across an astonishingly
broad range of experience, and deeply moving in the richness of
their humanity. Through each of them, resonates Bills vision of
poetry as a special annunciation and of the poet as seer, as
spokesperson, recorder, analyst, adjudicator and above all, as the
reminder to each of us of the best that is so easily lost to the
deathly universe of habit and blunted perception, to both the
deadening routines of daily life and domestic regimes and to the
crueller hand of oppression, authoritarianism, and misused
authority in all its forms, from the primitive imposition of will
through brute power political gangsterism, corruption and
state-orchestrated perjury, as he calls it in Sights Along Abakwa
Ring Road, through to the often less identifiable and far more
insidious regimes of international finance, World Bank, Black Debt,
and the hidden swindlings of the international monetary system. A
collection full of richness and diversity everyone should read in
its entirety. Michael Meehan (Writer & Critic, Deakin
University, Melbourne, Australia)
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