Category: Poetry
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Book Review: The Orange Tree by Dong Li
“no traveler brought a good name to the family’ And yet, as we see in this collection, they travelled.
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Mini Book Review: a “Working Life” by Eileen Myles
I’m something unreliable and this is a day for poetry.
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Love Is A Place But You Cannot Live There by Jade Wallace
This 104-page long book actually had quite a few poems I enjoyed. However, as a whole, I’m leaving this debut poetry collection 3.5 stars out of 5 (rounded up to 4 where that isn’t an option).
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Book Review: 100 Poems That Matter by The Academy of American Poets
I’ve been subscribed to poets.org for the longest time. Not only am I a huge fan of the poems they send, but it’s amazing to be be able to go and read a poem on the site. Sometimes your heart needs a certain poem and it’s fantastic to be able to access it so quickly!…
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My Week in Books – 6th to 13th November
What I read last week, and why you should, and shouldn’t, read them too!
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Sweet, Young & Worried by Blythe Baird
Mini Book Review Thank you NetGalley for the chance to read and review Sweet, Young & Worried. When I came across the book I realised that the authors name seemed familiar. I think I heard her slam poem, when the fat girl gets skinny in freshmen year. Aside from that I haven’t read or listened…
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Book Review: Tell Me the Truth About Love by Susanna Abse
I think this is a solid book if you’d like to understand more about yourself and the way people around you think.
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To Drown as a Cure for Thirst by Blake Auden
Long story short; I loved this book, and its going into my top reads of 2022 shelf! I’m also going to have to check out the rest of Blake Audens books! This felt like a well thought out collection, with all the poems consistently good!
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Women of the Harlem Renaissance Edited by Marissa Constantinou
The book selects some of the best short pieces by some of these women which is a great way to check out different writers and see whose style might be to your taste before reading more by them.
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A History of Touch by Erin Emily Ann Vance | Book Review
My grandmother always said, Ask no questions when disposing of bodies.
The Girl Who Reads 