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Meat Lovers by Rebecca Hawkes

wall0w's review against another edition

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medium-paced

4.0

Love a themed poetry collection! I really enjoyed how the author pulled heavily from her farming experiences growing up, using metaphors of farming for environmentalism, sex, and growing up. Specifically, I loved the lines descrining a circle of girls braiding each other's hair as a "sunburned rat king" and  how a rabbit was shot over and over again but wouldnt die (because the shots were from cameras) 
Beautiful, emotive (and sometimes necesarily gross) work

anna_oreally's review

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challenging dark emotional medium-paced

4.0

Enjoyed this poetry collection, meanders between gross, startling and nostalgically beautiful. The sense of place is spectacular 

cassberegi's review

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emotional mysterious reflective sad fast-paced

5.0

eren_reads's review against another edition

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dark reflective medium-paced

3.0

Whimpering fat
melts to breathless squeal. The grill huffs,
fogs my glasses like hot breath.
- The flexitarian 

It turned out celebrating hedonism was
quite boring actually. The display
of everyone's subversiveness 
in uniform corsetry.
- Denying that it was a phase (was a definite indicator that it was a phase)

This was an interesting collection of poetry which touched on things like sexuality and the way we interact with one lovers. 

My reason for not giving this a higher rating is that, in general, I was not particularly captivated by how Rebecca Hawkes used language. However, I found that the second part was effective, more so than the first. 

micah's review against another edition

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adventurous emotional funny reflective

5.0

ryn_richmond's review against another edition

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dark emotional reflective slow-paced

3.0

Good writing and I think worth the love but it's not a collection I enjoyed much of. Hope she publishes another collection-- would read.  

ieemee's review against another edition

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medium-paced

5.0

sillysausagezj's review against another edition

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dark medium-paced

2.75

leithd15's review

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funny reflective medium-paced

3.75

annahlee's review against another edition

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dark emotional reflective medium-paced

3.0