Shaggy Magpie Songs

Offers a celebration of poetry's potential for drama and comedy, narrative and nonsense. Presented in four parts - Praise, Nonsense, Blues and pop - the poems are at times jazzy and rollicking, at other times crooningly melancholic. Murray Edmond is a poet of lyricism and wit, reference and pastiche, thought and meory, all of which he brings in abundance to this collection.