Please Feed the Macaws…I’m Feeling Too Indolent

‘Kevin Densley’s Please Feed the Macaws…I’m Feeling Too Indolent is lively as a string of firecrackers. Combining wry observations on the shortcomings of culture and politics with keen historical portraiture and a new kind of dense poetic squib – packed with a whole poem’s charge in a few short lines – the collection crackles into life on every page. His vision is both broad and specific. Broad when he focuses on the mythic figures that shape our world – Madonna and Child Kate Kelly in her brothers’ shadow even Nosferatu winking from the wings – but specific in the small delightful ways he brings them to life. Solemn-serious building the early bridges graceful as a cow with a cup of tea. Please Feed the Macaws is a collection that sighs and rages at the inanities of the world – then sets out to change them one line and coruscating image at a time.’ – James Roderick Burns