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quills_and_typewriters's review against another edition
4.0
‘I lie in bed and notice things: how each fingernail is a screensaver of somewhere I’ve never been, a white hill beneath a giant sky of pink ghosted with cloud, a country my hands have dreamed.’
McCullough’s work really is a joy for those who like their poetry a little more abstract yet still deeply rooted in emotion and the beautiful mundanity of everyday life.
McCullough’s work really is a joy for those who like their poetry a little more abstract yet still deeply rooted in emotion and the beautiful mundanity of everyday life.
halfmanhalfbook's review
3.0
One of my goals this year has been to read at least two poetry books each month and so far I have succeeded in this. I haven’t managed to get to read some of the older classic poetry books that I have been accumulating for a while now, but I have been reading some of the more contemporary offerings that have come my way.
I have read some of Penned in the Margins non-fiction books and really enjoyed them, but have not ventured into their poetry collections until now. I was fortunate to have won this collection through a Costa prize giveaway where I won all 20 books that were shortlisted for the 2019 prize.
The chalk path you bever longed for
zigzags through cowslips no one asked to throng.
Reckless Paper Birds is probably a collection that I wouldn’t have picked up otherwise and reading out of my comfort zone is a good thing. In this McCollough looks at all manner of things from the queer perspective. The subject that are as diverse as origami, stationary, pterodactyls stones and of course, birds.
The poems varied from short stanza to longer and more considered verses. Some of the subject matter was quite intimate and others wrote about the mundane. They all had a touch of the surreal about them too, the way he describes colour stones scattered on a road or being ina crowd falling from a tall building. I thought it was quite a good collection and challenged my outlook.
Three Favourite Poems
Nuthatch
Nervous Systems
Cartoons for Adults
I have read some of Penned in the Margins non-fiction books and really enjoyed them, but have not ventured into their poetry collections until now. I was fortunate to have won this collection through a Costa prize giveaway where I won all 20 books that were shortlisted for the 2019 prize.
The chalk path you bever longed for
zigzags through cowslips no one asked to throng.
Reckless Paper Birds is probably a collection that I wouldn’t have picked up otherwise and reading out of my comfort zone is a good thing. In this McCollough looks at all manner of things from the queer perspective. The subject that are as diverse as origami, stationary, pterodactyls stones and of course, birds.
The poems varied from short stanza to longer and more considered verses. Some of the subject matter was quite intimate and others wrote about the mundane. They all had a touch of the surreal about them too, the way he describes colour stones scattered on a road or being ina crowd falling from a tall building. I thought it was quite a good collection and challenged my outlook.
Three Favourite Poems
Nuthatch
Nervous Systems
Cartoons for Adults
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