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Winner of the 2012 IP Picks Best Poetry Award, musefood is modern, savvy and sharp-tongued verse at its best.
Ruckertβs musings on women in contemporary life explore a subject not often visited through verse. What could have easily been flighty or frivolous is instead a witty and honest social commentary, intertwined with varying shades of comedy and poignancy.
Winner of the 2012 IP Picks Best Poetry Award, musefood is modern, savvy and sharp-tongued verse at its best.
Ruckertβs musings on women in contemporary life explore a subject not often visited through verse. What could have easily been flighty or frivolous is instead a witty and honest social commentary, intertwined with varying shades of comedy and poignancy.
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IP (Interactive Publications Pty Ltd) –
“On opening Margaret Ruckertβs new collection βmusefoodβ one discovers a generously stocked pantry of poems. βmusefoodβ is almost cornucopic in its range of subjects. There are poems focussed on the contemporary woman, on contemporary lifestyle, education, science, hospitals and doctors, shopping, real estate, eating out, personal and family history, quirky museums, nature β and more.
Ruckert has a sharp and perceptive eye, and an inventive mind. She has the reflexes of a caricaturist. Her poems can be humorous, playful, witty, acerbic β and trenchantly challenging. In βparty girl β submarine classβ the poet comments βand when she works a room, sheβs a periscope on legsβ. Another poem is titled βMiss Diagnosisβ. In βby 12 p.m. any weekdayβ Ruckert cheekily inquires of an extended family group eating out
βCaesar salad, is one or more of them celebrating
the birth of a babyβ¦β¦β
Lyrical moments such as a portrait of her motherβs shorthand skills in βmood cumulusβ, and water image poems complement the more performative works in this collection.”
– Joanne Burns