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2.5 AVERAGE
2.5 AVERAGE
The only poem that really stuck with me was From THE SILVER REMBRANDT i found this quite amusing especially when back at Frances and the accidental fart. I liked how this one played out and it is something i could visualise. A majority of the other poetry i pretty much sat there and thought...what have i just read.
The religious ones for me never having been brought up in any religion i found those difficult to comprehend.
I also found on the journey of life that this book seems to follow again the poem “Sleeping Together” is one that made me chuckle at certain parts.
The book was ok but not one that I’ll remember and the poems won’t stick with me for very long.
The religious ones for me never having been brought up in any religion i found those difficult to comprehend.
I also found on the journey of life that this book seems to follow again the poem “Sleeping Together” is one that made me chuckle at certain parts.
The book was ok but not one that I’ll remember and the poems won’t stick with me for very long.
I had had Kate Foley's 8th poetry collection waiting on my bedside table for a while, and what spurred me on to pick it up was an episode of The Stacks (a book podcast), which was a discussion on poetry and how we might approach it. This collection is described as being "made from meeting, migration and marriage: poems reflecting the journey of one poet and her wife, across linguistic and cultural boundaries".
I'm glad I listened to the podcast episode first, because I was able to approach this in a different way to how I would normally approach poetry, including reading each poem aloud (several times) to experience the way the language felt. That was really helpful because there were poems in there that I didn't "get"/seemed like a string of sentences with no overall meaning, yet I was still able to enjoy certain phrases, the way some of the sentences rolled through my mouth and their rhythm, and I needed to hear that.
There were 5 poems that I really liked, and know I will go back to, and they definitely made this short collection well worth the read. I absolutely loved the extract "from The Silver Rembrandt" - it had a real meaning for me and I so identified with the feeling of being 'drunk' on your surroundings, when at an LGBT gathering. It evoked the feelings I had the first time I went out with the LGBT society at University - I was dizzy with it, drinking in the sight of so many more bi women and lesbians than I had ever seen before all crowded into this small space, desperately trying to soak up every sensation and commit it to memory 🌈
I also appreciated the religious references throughout, having been raised Catholic for the my first 12-ish years, and the lovely cover!
I'm glad I listened to the podcast episode first, because I was able to approach this in a different way to how I would normally approach poetry, including reading each poem aloud (several times) to experience the way the language felt. That was really helpful because there were poems in there that I didn't "get"/seemed like a string of sentences with no overall meaning, yet I was still able to enjoy certain phrases, the way some of the sentences rolled through my mouth and their rhythm, and I needed to hear that.
There were 5 poems that I really liked, and know I will go back to, and they definitely made this short collection well worth the read. I absolutely loved the extract "from The Silver Rembrandt" - it had a real meaning for me and I so identified with the feeling of being 'drunk' on your surroundings, when at an LGBT gathering. It evoked the feelings I had the first time I went out with the LGBT society at University - I was dizzy with it, drinking in the sight of so many more bi women and lesbians than I had ever seen before all crowded into this small space, desperately trying to soak up every sensation and commit it to memory 🌈
I also appreciated the religious references throughout, having been raised Catholic for the my first 12-ish years, and the lovely cover!