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Average rating: 4.26 · 1,358 ratings · 179 reviews · 21 distinct works

	Ode Ode 4.45 avg rating — 11 ratings — published 2002 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Out of the Box: Contemporary Australian Gay and Lesbian Poets by Michael Farrell (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Jill Jones (Goodreads Author) (Editor) 4.36 avg rating — 11 ratings — published 2009	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Cocky's Joy 4.40 avg rating — 10 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	open sesame 4.25 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 2012	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Victoria Principle 4.14 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 2025 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	a raiders guide 4.40 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2008	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Family Trees 4.25 avg rating — 4 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	I Love Poetry 3.50 avg rating — 4 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Googlecholia 3.67 avg rating — 3 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Michael Farrell rated a book it was amazing Kantorowicz: Stories of a Historian (Parallax: Re-visions of Culture and Society) by Alain Boureau	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Michael Farrell rated a book it was amazing With All the Views: The Collected Poems by Adrian Durham Stokes	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Michael Farrell rated a book it was amazing Proofs & Theories: Essays on Poetry by Louise Glück	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
im not really a fan of her poetry, but these essays are great.
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Michael Farrell rated a book it was amazing Diaries, 1920-22 by Bertolt Brecht	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
brilliant.
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Michael Farrell rated a book it was ok Three Stories 'Father! Father! Burning Bright', 'the Clothes They Stood Up In', 'the Laying on of Hands by Alan Bennett	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
he has some good ideas, and great dialogue, but he is an overrated writer. perhaps corrupted by TV? i just cant fw narrators that are everywhere for the writers advantage
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Michael Farrell and 9 other people liked Maddy's review of After Finitude: An Essay on the Necessity of Contingency: "Reading Meillassoux is like watching someone skin a hare."
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