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aldora's review
reflective
slow-paced
1.0
I liked exactly 1% of this book.
There was only 1 poem that I liked, and even then it didn't "speak to me". I didn't "connect" with it. I just liked it. There isn't anything wrong with the rest, I guess, it just really was not for me, and I could not wait to for it to end. Page after page of hoping it would make me feel something that wasn't boredom.
There was only 1 poem that I liked, and even then it didn't "speak to me". I didn't "connect" with it. I just liked it. There isn't anything wrong with the rest, I guess, it just really was not for me, and I could not wait to for it to end. Page after page of hoping it would make me feel something that wasn't boredom.
jbowman19's review
4.0
Broad and varied selection that I’ve enjoyed dipping in and out of, finding new favourites and rediscovering past ones. The opening remarks are of interest (nice change from the hands-off editors of other anthologies) but obviously the meat is the poems themselves. Lots to love here but some highlights include Chen Chen, Richard Scott, Kae Tempest, Ocean Vuong, Harry Josephine Giles, Jo Morris Dixon, Audre Lorde, and Langston Hughes. Overall a really nicely put-together anthology with a clear process and aim behind it.