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gelbot5000's review
3.0
So excited for any platform that makes contemporary poetry accessible. All the poets here are talented and this is a collection I'll come back to time and again.
chaoticbibliophile's review
3.0
First of all, I love the idea for this series and I want to check out every single book in it.
I really enjoyed this as an overview, although of course there were some poems I liked more than others.
Sophie Collins really spoke to me and Emily Berry was quite interesting and raw, whereas Anne Carson was a bit harder to get into.
I really enjoyed this as an overview, although of course there were some poems I liked more than others.
Sophie Collins really spoke to me and Emily Berry was quite interesting and raw, whereas Anne Carson was a bit harder to get into.
martu's review
2.0
i really enjoyed most poems by emily berry, especially letter to husband, our love could spoil dinner or her inheritance. i would like to read more from her but this is all i can say about this book. i didn’t enjoy or connect to anne carson and sophie collins’s works, i felt too uncultured to understand the references they were making or to find a deeper meaning in their words, so it became hard to finish the book. still, i think this collection by penguin is a v good way to discover new current day poets that might be a little more difficult to encounter, plus you get to read from three different ones in each volume.
sauvageloup's review
3.0
this was...okay. admittedly i'm not a huge poetry reader and I wouldn't have read this if it hadn't have been a uni books.
pros:
- I really liked Emily Berry's poems, especially Letter to husband, Trees, Picnic and The Numbers game. I found she used some really lovely phrases and packed a lot of emotion into her work.
- I also liked Carson's 'Candour' and Collin's 'Healers' and 'An Unusual day'.
- it succeeded in making me interested in seeking out more of Berry's work
- some of them were quite humorous
cons:
- didn't really click with the Arlene poems of Berry's
- I felt like form frequently took over clarity and content and emotional impact was lost because I simply didn't understand what was going on. this isn't necessary always terrible, for example I didn't really "get" Berry's 'Picnic' poem but it sounded so lovely I liked it anyway. but Carson and Collins just sounded, to my uneducated ear, like prose nonsense split up across lines. I could pick out a few phases I liked but that was all.
so overall I liked Berry's work but would pass up reading anymore Carson or Collins for sure.
pros:
- I really liked Emily Berry's poems, especially Letter to husband, Trees, Picnic and The Numbers game. I found she used some really lovely phrases and packed a lot of emotion into her work.
- I also liked Carson's 'Candour' and Collin's 'Healers' and 'An Unusual day'.
- it succeeded in making me interested in seeking out more of Berry's work
- some of them were quite humorous
cons:
- didn't really click with the Arlene poems of Berry's
- I felt like form frequently took over clarity and content and emotional impact was lost because I simply didn't understand what was going on. this isn't necessary always terrible, for example I didn't really "get" Berry's 'Picnic' poem but it sounded so lovely I liked it anyway. but Carson and Collins just sounded, to my uneducated ear, like prose nonsense split up across lines. I could pick out a few phases I liked but that was all.
so overall I liked Berry's work but would pass up reading anymore Carson or Collins for sure.
biancaast's review
3.0
2.5 stars
I can't say there was any poem in here that particularly stood out to me. I'm not too impressed, to be honest... Emily Berry was probably the best out of the three in my opinion
I can't say there was any poem in here that particularly stood out to me. I'm not too impressed, to be honest... Emily Berry was probably the best out of the three in my opinion
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