My frozen writing-brush that will not write. I found Stewart a much more congenial character than McAuley to follow through Damaged Men . I enjoyed reading some of his outrageous puns and reading about his life and work in Japan. In the end, I am not sure that Ackland proved McAuley and Stewart to be any more damaged and confused than most poets, or most people for that matter. But although Damaged Men is not always easy to read because of its dry, factual, political and historical orientation, it is well worth reading.
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