zoeap's review against another edition
This was my first venture into reading poetry by Simon Armitage. I enjoyed it, though I didn’t have an intuitive and personal connection with most of these poems like I would have reading a collection by Atwood, Duffy, or even Cope. ‘The Two of Us ‘ was the first (and really only) poem I felt a connection with in this collection. I also really enjoyed ‘Before You Cut Loose,’ and ‘Five Eleven Ninety-Nine’, that latter of which I’d really love to think on more and read others’ interpretations of it. Overall I enjoyed his style of writing, but I just didn’t find the subject matter itself to spark much of anything in me.
daisyb's review
mysterious
fast-paced
4.0
very very enjoyable! I love how emley moor mast appears in all his poems like some kind of children of the stones shining haunted landscape and also I absolutely get it..... same reason I wanted to write about pylons in Like Father, Like Son (そして父になる) 2013
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