Aji magazine on Dialling a Starless Past

You can read the full review here: http://www.ajimagazine.com/uploads/2/2/2/8/22289112/2020-spring-ajimagazinespringissue12.pdf But here’s the reviewer’s summary…

“I recommend you purchase your own copy of this book and read it carefully. It will challenge you to read aloud, to think carefully about each line; it will pull you into the starless past the author invoked in the early pages of the book. If the goal of poetry is to transcend ordinary experience, to somehow lit our minds and emotions beyond the everyday, then Dialling a Starless Past is certainly a masterful work of poetry in spite of its lack of “meaningless sameness.” My opinion may not count for much, but for what it’s worth, I believe this poet deserves his passport into academe, the place where the experts set the standards for everyone else.

He should be read, heard, appreciated, and most of all respected. If Mike McNamara is not a poet in the truest sense of the word, then Shakespeare “never writ, nor no man ever lov’d.”