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drakaina16's review
dark
reflective
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? N/A
- Strong character development? N/A
- Loveable characters? N/A
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
4.0
Thank you to NetGalley for providing a review copy.
This is a collection of found poetry - poetry created from eliminating words in an existing work. In this case, it's an unfinished epistolary novel of Stephen King's called The Plant. I've always been interested in this style. It's amazing what can be reimagined from what already exists. The poetry is lush and evocative and I enjoyed the book a lot. 4 stars
This is a collection of found poetry - poetry created from eliminating words in an existing work. In this case, it's an unfinished epistolary novel of Stephen King's called The Plant. I've always been interested in this style. It's amazing what can be reimagined from what already exists. The poetry is lush and evocative and I enjoyed the book a lot. 4 stars
katnortonwriter's review
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? N/A
- Strong character development? N/A
- Loveable characters? N/A
- Diverse cast of characters? N/A
- Flaws of characters a main focus? N/A
2.5
This was a 2.5* read for me, although to some extent the fault is mine. I saw “horror” and “poetry” and got all excited, but failed to realize that this collection is composed entirely of found poems.
Intellectually, I think this is a compelling exercise, but the poems didn’t make me feel much. I feel like this is often the case for me when it comes to found poetry. Yes, I can analyze the meaning, which in this case forms a semi-coherent story in which the narrator is a palimpsest, just at the poems themselves are a form of palimpsest in a way. But just because I can think about these poems doesn’t make me feel much, if anything, about them. This is 100% to do with how I enjoy poetry, and what I want from the experience of reading a collection. Not for me, but I think fans of Stephen King in particular (who wrote the MS in which these poems were found) will enjoy the nesting-doll effect of works within works.
Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for allowing me to read this book as an ARC.
hawlaye's review
challenging
- Plot- or character-driven? N/A
- Strong character development? N/A
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
1.5
1.5 stars rounded up*
Personally, this collection of poetry just was not for me. I found it to be very unorganised and lacking structure or meaning to the overall flow of the collection. The author did state at the end of the book that all the poems were actually comprised of random phrases from other pieces of work. That was an entirely new concept to me. I don't believe this approach worked well for this specific collection. I didn't understand a lot of the poems and the messages they were trying to convey. After reading the author's note, it becomes quite apparent that the author pieced sentences from other's work together.
Poetry can be a very personal piece of writing as well as extremely ambiguous, so maybe these just weren't to my taste. However, I did not enjoy this work as much as I had hoped to due to the lack of structure and the chaos evident throughout the pages.
Thank you so much to Netgalley for an ARC in exchange for an honest review.
Personally, this collection of poetry just was not for me. I found it to be very unorganised and lacking structure or meaning to the overall flow of the collection. The author did state at the end of the book that all the poems were actually comprised of random phrases from other pieces of work. That was an entirely new concept to me. I don't believe this approach worked well for this specific collection. I didn't understand a lot of the poems and the messages they were trying to convey. After reading the author's note, it becomes quite apparent that the author pieced sentences from other's work together.
Poetry can be a very personal piece of writing as well as extremely ambiguous, so maybe these just weren't to my taste. However, I did not enjoy this work as much as I had hoped to due to the lack of structure and the chaos evident throughout the pages.
Thank you so much to Netgalley for an ARC in exchange for an honest review.
gracingyouwithbooks's review
dark
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? N/A
- Strong character development? N/A
- Loveable characters? N/A
- Diverse cast of characters? N/A
- Flaws of characters a main focus? N/A
3.0
manthasbookstack's review
2.5
I wish there was the authors note at the start about it found poetry because I have never encountered this before and wondered why the poems didn’t flow. It’s hard to review on this basis because I didn’t enjoy it. But I do wonder if I’d have viewed it differently if I’d known. My favourite poem was “of the earth”
corvvs's review
dark
reflective
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? N/A
- Strong character development? N/A
- Loveable characters? N/A
- Diverse cast of characters? N/A
- Flaws of characters a main focus? N/A
4.0