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audioandereadergrrly's review
5.0
A beautiful poetry collection about mental illness. With lots of water imagery used in clever ways and heartfelt narration, I highly recommend this audiobook.
shirleycuypers's review
5.0
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This book was provided by the publisher through Netgalley in exchange for an honest review. Thank you Andrews McMeel Publishing and Netgalley!
but when your eyes meet
theirs for the first time,
you become an ocean.
Submerge is a poetry collection about love, friendship, trauma, mental illness, loss, self-harm, racism and violence, and is K.Y. Robinson’s second poetry collection. This collection is divided into three parts: immerse, drown and emerge.
i’ve found new universes in the unfolding nebulas of your eyes.
you are the first one my heart cracked open for.
Submerge is the second book I’ve read by K.Y. Robinson and I was really excited to read this collection. I really loved her first poetry collection, The Chaos of Longing, so I had some high expectations.
your name pooled inside me
and i swallowed every wave
to drown my love for you
I really liked the illustrations used in this collection. It gave it something extra. As for the poems, a lot of them were really beautiful and relatable. I kept on adding and adding more titles to my 'favourite poems' list. I didn’t expect anything else since I loved K.Y. Robinson’s first poetry collection!
when you kissed me it felt like
you were searching for someone
who didn’t exist and i let you because
i wanted to be anyone else but myself.
I’m really looking forward to K.Y. Robinson’s next poetry collection! She’s such an amazing author and all over her poems are so beautiful and or emotional. I highly recommend Submerge!
Favourite poems:
secrets
at first sight
the first kiss
first love
transcend
swept away
fleeting
a flowering friendship
and it was so good
homegirls
submerge
waves of longing
soluble
when they leave
the sailor and the siren
drowning in love
withered
the last time
misplaced kisses
gary
i have a girlfriend
reputation
on losing my father
how are you?
no one understands
why i write
fight
the cycle
what not to say to someone with mental illness
blossom
This book was provided by the publisher through Netgalley in exchange for an honest review. Thank you Andrews McMeel Publishing and Netgalley!
but when your eyes meet
theirs for the first time,
you become an ocean.
Submerge is a poetry collection about love, friendship, trauma, mental illness, loss, self-harm, racism and violence, and is K.Y. Robinson’s second poetry collection. This collection is divided into three parts: immerse, drown and emerge.
i’ve found new universes in the unfolding nebulas of your eyes.
you are the first one my heart cracked open for.
Submerge is the second book I’ve read by K.Y. Robinson and I was really excited to read this collection. I really loved her first poetry collection, The Chaos of Longing, so I had some high expectations.
your name pooled inside me
and i swallowed every wave
to drown my love for you
I really liked the illustrations used in this collection. It gave it something extra. As for the poems, a lot of them were really beautiful and relatable. I kept on adding and adding more titles to my 'favourite poems' list. I didn’t expect anything else since I loved K.Y. Robinson’s first poetry collection!
when you kissed me it felt like
you were searching for someone
who didn’t exist and i let you because
i wanted to be anyone else but myself.
I’m really looking forward to K.Y. Robinson’s next poetry collection! She’s such an amazing author and all over her poems are so beautiful and or emotional. I highly recommend Submerge!
Favourite poems:
secrets
at first sight
the first kiss
first love
transcend
swept away
fleeting
a flowering friendship
and it was so good
homegirls
submerge
waves of longing
soluble
when they leave
the sailor and the siren
drowning in love
withered
the last time
misplaced kisses
gary
i have a girlfriend
reputation
on losing my father
how are you?
no one understands
why i write
fight
the cycle
what not to say to someone with mental illness
blossom
lucysgoodfellow's review
2.0
⭐⭐ 2 Stars
A collection of heartfelt poetry that sometimes bordered on the line between lyrical and amaturish.
Although I enjoyed the politically relevant poetry I found some of the shorter poems to just not pack the same kind of punch as the longer ones. It felt like the writer was just trying to fill up space between the longer poems so this could be a book rather than a pamphlet.
My favourite poems in the collection were about the writer's experiences as a woman of colour and how this has impacted her life personally along with the lives of her family and friends. I would love to read a collection that focussed more on this rather than the female experience as a whole. And I would read [a:K.Y. Robinson|15294122|K.Y. Robinson|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1507041033p2/15294122.jpg] work again because it takes a good poet to have an entire book using one motif and for it not to get boring.
But I only bookmarked 7 poems out of this 160-page collection which summarises my feelings on it as a whole. Not life-changing but not terrible.
⚠Trigger Warnings⚠: mental illness, sexual trauma, self-harm, racism, and violence.
I received this book as an ARC via NetGalley
A collection of heartfelt poetry that sometimes bordered on the line between lyrical and amaturish.
Although I enjoyed the politically relevant poetry I found some of the shorter poems to just not pack the same kind of punch as the longer ones. It felt like the writer was just trying to fill up space between the longer poems so this could be a book rather than a pamphlet.
My favourite poems in the collection were about the writer's experiences as a woman of colour and how this has impacted her life personally along with the lives of her family and friends. I would love to read a collection that focussed more on this rather than the female experience as a whole. And I would read [a:K.Y. Robinson|15294122|K.Y. Robinson|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1507041033p2/15294122.jpg] work again because it takes a good poet to have an entire book using one motif and for it not to get boring.
But I only bookmarked 7 poems out of this 160-page collection which summarises my feelings on it as a whole. Not life-changing but not terrible.
⚠Trigger Warnings⚠: mental illness, sexual trauma, self-harm, racism, and violence.
I received this book as an ARC via NetGalley
anubhaghoshal's review
1.0
I couldn't connect with the book Submerge. There were trigger warnings against sexual trauma, self harm, racism, and violence, mental illness. And the book is divided into immerse, drown and emerge.
I like only one or two poems. Most of the poems covered the same topic of lust and sexual intercourse. It was quite restricted to only one aspect, which I get might lead to other aspects of life but got monotonous after 75 pages and then the book was just a drag to read and finish.
There was no emphasis on self empowerment, there were only metaphorical descriptions of sexual intercourse. There were rarely any poems about racism or violence. Most of it was yearning and blaming.
I couldn't click with these poems, if the author dwelves into other aspects in their next book, I'd like to read it and perhaps find them interesting.
I like only one or two poems. Most of the poems covered the same topic of lust and sexual intercourse. It was quite restricted to only one aspect, which I get might lead to other aspects of life but got monotonous after 75 pages and then the book was just a drag to read and finish.
There was no emphasis on self empowerment, there were only metaphorical descriptions of sexual intercourse. There were rarely any poems about racism or violence. Most of it was yearning and blaming.
I couldn't click with these poems, if the author dwelves into other aspects in their next book, I'd like to read it and perhaps find them interesting.
moonofpages_'s review
4.0
3,75
Didn’t love the first part, but the second and third part were really beautiful. I loved how water was waved into these poems, that was my favorite part about this.
Great work and talks a lot about mental illness and doesn’t shy away from its devastating reality.
Didn’t love the first part, but the second and third part were really beautiful. I loved how water was waved into these poems, that was my favorite part about this.
Great work and talks a lot about mental illness and doesn’t shy away from its devastating reality.
adrienner's review
5.0
Any time I pick up a book of poetry, I think of my Irish grandmother, who loved poetry and gave me several poetry books. She died in 2014 and it has been too long since I picked up a collection of poetry. I was provided a free e-book copy of this book by the publisher through Netgalley in exchange for an honest review.
Submerge is divided into three parts. It can be easy to fly through a book of poetry. The sections helped me to stop and reflect on the poems I had read. The artwork at each section is beautiful and gives a peak into what to expect in the following poems.
The theme of water flows throughout the book, making the poems well connected. This is the first poetry book I've read that has kept on theme so well.
Several poems resonated with me. I felt like they were a gift. Poetry most seems like the soul of the poet laid bare. I'll admit sometimes I struggle with poetry to know if it is memoir or fiction. Submerge is telling a story. The poems about depression and bipolar disorder are accurate. She illustrates with words exactly how it feels, better than I've ever read in any prose or poetry.
Submerge is divided into three parts. It can be easy to fly through a book of poetry. The sections helped me to stop and reflect on the poems I had read. The artwork at each section is beautiful and gives a peak into what to expect in the following poems.
The theme of water flows throughout the book, making the poems well connected. This is the first poetry book I've read that has kept on theme so well.
Several poems resonated with me. I felt like they were a gift. Poetry most seems like the soul of the poet laid bare. I'll admit sometimes I struggle with poetry to know if it is memoir or fiction. Submerge is telling a story. The poems about depression and bipolar disorder are accurate. She illustrates with words exactly how it feels, better than I've ever read in any prose or poetry.
caitlindee's review
4.0
**4.5**
I loved this! Very emotional and raw while also being incredibly relatable. I'm a huge fan of K.Y. Robinson's work!
I loved this! Very emotional and raw while also being incredibly relatable. I'm a huge fan of K.Y. Robinson's work!
kellyd's review
3.0
At times veering on melodrama or inspiration-esque, but there are enough beautiful, interesting lines and images to make it worth a read.