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 To some, a brilliant satirist using children’s verse styles and influences to conjure dark images of contemporary western consumer society with poems such as: The Life And Death Of Art and Simply Everyone’s Taking Cocaine.“I don’t want to read his poetry, I want to borrow his Carmen Rollers, Barbra Ellen. The Observer.To others a fraudulent opportunist and self publicist who briefly and inexplicably clambered his way up the greasy media pole only to be rightly hounded back down by those who saw straight through his “Childlike scrawlings”, Savil Row suits and chunky legged Butler. With his outrageous appearance and mesmeric performance style he briefly shook the poetry world out of its self-referential exclusivity, only to suddenly disappear from public view in the wake of scandal and destruction at one of the worlds most powerful record companies.  Poet, Comedian, performance artist or hoaxer?Was Murray Lachlan Young’s bizarre punk Dandy stage persona and dark doctor Seuss writing just too much for the average press corps literature graduate to take in? Was the music industry’s triumphant delivery of a ‘literary figure’ a direct attack on the music/literature status quo? Was it true that he was the cause-celeb and pet project of a Cocaine snorting elite that went to the very heart of the industries of desire? Whichever way you look at it he certainly did provide something for people to write about? ““Soon his bosses at EMI won't be able to sell him to the government for use as tallow fuel to burn alongside BSE infected cows” Barbra Ellen. The Observer *Cheers Babs! 
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