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from "Jaded eyes and anonymous scribbles" by Malcolm Ballin,
a review of Anon magazine where the poem "Factor 30" was published.
"I found, contrary to my usual experience, that almost all the poems in this issue gave me pleasure. There is an endearing lack of solemnity: the editors prefer lyrics with touches of humour, well-controlled syntax, unpretentious aperçus of the ordinary.
The general tone is set in the first poem by Jonathan Wonham, 'Factor 30'. The middle verses read:
With a peculiar, louche grace
you took the hand-held fan from your holdall
and buzzed it over your face.
A mask of lotion stalled
the unrelenting sun, but still allowed
what one might even call
a photograph to develop...
This is accomplished work; intimate, observant, erotic, using cleverly distributed suppressed rhymes."
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