Paradise Birds - Casey

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The poems run the point-of-view triathlon, ranging across first, second and third person. This variety works well, and augments Millett's apparent objective to illustrate the many different lives and lifestyles that exist on the Coast. The title of the collection - The People Singers - is referred to, either subtly or more blatantly, throughout the poetry, and this focus is one of the book's virtues. It creates a lyrical quality that is threaded through the poems and is neither too dramatised, nor too faint. Conversely, the overuse of references to birds in every possible manifestation (over eighty five in total), whether metaphoric or literal, verges on the comical and is consequently ineffectual.