clari's review
5.0
This is a truly beautiful and moving collections of poems. Reading it is like taking a slow walk through a forest and being only vaguely aware as around you time passes and dawn turns to twilight. The book itself is to be savoured in its own right with delicate illustrations and black pages interspersed between the more traditional white ones. The language is immediately accessible but invites us to pause and think about what it truly means with direct questions such as 'How have you fared in this weary world?/Are you really listening?' asked in the poem 'Fall in and Feel Free'. In 'Carry me Gently', T.C.Anderson says 'I'll rewrite the script and/live in my words'. While reading this volume, I did feel that I was living in and through and beyond the words.
All the works seemed so complete and perfectly formed in themselves so I was surprised at the end of the work where the poet said she'd worked with the creative process of pulling random, previously written phrases from a bowl and then arranging them into the poems. I am a fan of découpé but have rarely seen it put together so elegantly. It adds to my already high recommendation of this book as it is such an inspiring insight into the whole process of writing and what can be produced.
All the works seemed so complete and perfectly formed in themselves so I was surprised at the end of the work where the poet said she'd worked with the creative process of pulling random, previously written phrases from a bowl and then arranging them into the poems. I am a fan of découpé but have rarely seen it put together so elegantly. It adds to my already high recommendation of this book as it is such an inspiring insight into the whole process of writing and what can be produced.
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