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charlottejones952's review against another edition
2.0
I don't usually read much poetry but this year I'm trying to make a concerted effort to read at least one collection every few months.
I picked this one up years ago because I grew up in Wales and as I usually enjoy nature poetry, I thought this would resonate more with me. Although my favourites of the collection were the more nature based poems, I found many of the poems in the collection to not be very impacting. I think that Abse managed to describe landscape very evocatively but I didn't feel any particular emotions whilst reading this book.
Overall, this isn't a collection I would recommend. I am aware that other readers may take more from this than I did but I didn't enjoy the majority of the poems unfortunately.
2 out of 5 stars!
I picked this one up years ago because I grew up in Wales and as I usually enjoy nature poetry, I thought this would resonate more with me. Although my favourites of the collection were the more nature based poems, I found many of the poems in the collection to not be very impacting. I think that Abse managed to describe landscape very evocatively but I didn't feel any particular emotions whilst reading this book.
Overall, this isn't a collection I would recommend. I am aware that other readers may take more from this than I did but I didn't enjoy the majority of the poems unfortunately.
2 out of 5 stars!
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