There's a fair bit of chaff in this retrospective, but when Logue's on song he's a match for any English poet of the second half of the 20th century. Stuff like "When I was serving my country" and "Caption for a Photograph of Four Organized Criminals" blends the personal and political as deftly as his contemporaries Gavin Ewart (of whom Logue reminds me) and Peter Reading, and his later work — "Fragment" and "New Numbers" especially — reads like an updating of Eliot with its easy but insistent iambs and many-angled narrative voice. There's a very funny invective against a neighbor who mutilates Logue's tree. There's an extract from his monumental "War Music" included too, but you should read that in its entirety. I loved this one (could you call it an ecLogue?):
Things
The sun shines on the fields and on the town.Far in the distance by the millA man in blue is gardening.A cat sleeps on a window-sill.At a bar, two gentlemen discuss the latest Aston-Martin.
Oh that's a wonderful piece, I've definitely got to check out some of Logue's work. Would War Music be a good place to start?
It's the only other thing I've read by him and it's a bona fide masterpiece so I'd have to say yes. I don't know if you can get it in one volume now. There's nothing like it. I guess you should be familiar with the Iliad going in.