Uncaged Sea

John Goodby's remarkably sustained uncaged sea whips you up into a state where you want to 'smother the sweet haggard in the glass'. What can one say of such a 'tusked ramshackling' work? All I could say after reading it was: 'like dramatic sea I have been a ball of lakes.' A prodigious unconscionable downright desperate poem! -- John Hartley Williams.The reworkings of Dylan Thomas by John Goodby and Boiled String show just how close Dylan Thomas always was to the edge. This is Thomas thrust into the post-modern maelstrom, pulled by process, mashed by manipulation and riveted by rearrangement. -- Peter Finch.