In Disguise

Drawn from several prior publications, this definitive collection of John O'Loughlin's rhymed and unrhymed poetry, to distinguish it from his abstract poetry and/or poetic word art, dates from the early 1970s and reveals the slow growth out of a conventionally youthful romanticism of a philosophical-cum-ideological approach to poetry which became characteristic of his literary works in the 1980s, as though transitional to an uninhibitedly philosophical phase of writings to come which would leave even philosophical literature, including short prose, severely in the intellectual lurch - A Centretruths editorial