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The Shaking City by Cath Drake

serendipitysbooks's review against another edition

medium-paced

4.0

 I always struggle to formulate my thoughts about poetry, especially contemporary poetry. It’s a genre I’m still finding my feet with. Some poems - those with a clear focus on the climate crisis, or colonialism or the nostalgic way you can sometimes look at home when you are living far away- in this collection I connected with easily. Others - those with surreal elements especially- were more of a challenge. But overall a good reading experience and, unsurprisingly, the more contemporary poetry so read the more comfortable I become with it.