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iainiainiainiain's review
Favourites:
Sign of the Anchor
Summer
Winter
Song
Aqua
The photo that is most troubling is the one I don't want to show you
Freud's Beautiful Things
Freud's Horses
Girl on a Liner
Sleeping
Drunken Bellarmine
Flowers
Aura
Canopy
Sign of the Anchor
Summer
Winter
Song
Aqua
The photo that is most troubling is the one I don't want to show you
Freud's Beautiful Things
Freud's Horses
Girl on a Liner
Sleeping
Drunken Bellarmine
Flowers
Aura
Canopy
hailey's review
5.0
This was my favorite poetry collection that I read during 2017! I’m excited that they are now going to publish her first collection in the states this year, too!
ellephuonglinhnguyen's review against another edition
3.0
It is perfectly true that she obsessed me,
in spite of the fact that she died when I was thirteen,
until I was forty-four. A mother's death lasts a lot of years
What shall we do?
in spite of the fact that she died when I was thirteen,
until I was forty-four. A mother's death lasts a lot of years
What shall we do?
pascalepetit's review
5.0
One of my favourite collections of 2017 - original, inventive approaches to writing about grief, gets to the heart of the daughter-mother dynamic and the wound that can be found at its core. Every poem surprises with fresh language and technical flair, while also moving me with its emotional depth.
zen101101's review
3.0
Interesting formats. Not long reads, but complex. I had to go re-read sections multiple times.
steph_k_103's review
3.0
3.5/5 ⭐️
This is very subjective but I felt like it was too depressing to engage with. Maybe reading it all in one go is a bit much but I felt like it lacked refreshing elements of moments of hope. Yes her meanings were very personal, very traumatic and very sad. But it’s hard to read about grief and loss so consistently to the point where their feelings translate to yourself and consume the rest of your day, as it did me now.
Having said this, some of her poems and some of her lines were just beautifully constructed. I cried from ONE sentence in one of her poems.
Her way with describing a story through metaphors, her reoccurring use of oceanic themes, plus there was no rhyming. I must admit i didn’t understand some poems but when pieces of the story started to fit together it was quite amazing. Oh to be such a talented writer…
Again this is subjective, but maybe I need to revisit this in the future and see if my opinion changes or if I view her words in a different light.
This is very subjective but I felt like it was too depressing to engage with. Maybe reading it all in one go is a bit much but I felt like it lacked refreshing elements of moments of hope. Yes her meanings were very personal, very traumatic and very sad. But it’s hard to read about grief and loss so consistently to the point where their feelings translate to yourself and consume the rest of your day, as it did me now.
Having said this, some of her poems and some of her lines were just beautifully constructed. I cried from ONE sentence in one of her poems.
Her way with describing a story through metaphors, her reoccurring use of oceanic themes, plus there was no rhyming. I must admit i didn’t understand some poems but when pieces of the story started to fit together it was quite amazing. Oh to be such a talented writer…
Again this is subjective, but maybe I need to revisit this in the future and see if my opinion changes or if I view her words in a different light.
julieasp's review
Everyday the loss of light
The new year comes in, carrying all my language
I do not know if it is bringing or taking away
The new year comes in, carrying all my language
I do not know if it is bringing or taking away
casparb's review
this one is more Sea I like it arguably more sophisticated I enjoy Aura and Aqua it's a wonderfully precise voice. looking forward to the next Berry though Dear Boy still the one for me
jcampbell's review
emotional
funny
3.25
The poems are well written and interesting but as someone not currently grieving I found some of the poems hard to relate to.