Ricky Ricardo Suites

In his first book since the novel Napoleonis Retreat, and his first collection of poems in almost a decade, Robert Allen continues to dazzle with his astonishingly diverse work. Among other things, Ricky Ricardo Suites contains 46 new sections of the long poem eThe Encantadas, i which Phil Hall called i...a wondrous poem: dense, lush, hypnotic.i

Critical Comment

iIn his first poetry collection since Magellanis Clouds, New and Selected Poems (1990, Vehicule Press, Signal Editions), Allen writes clear and provocative poems on a range of subjects, casually observing Errol Flynnis cock, getting cable, conversations of what Al Purdy could get away with, Ricky Ricardo, and on the birth of western music.i

o The Antigonish Review, 2002