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jouljet's review
challenging
emotional
informative
reflective
medium-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
zzara's review
emotional
reflective
medium-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
4.5
This was a great little book of poetry. I find sometimes poetry goes over my head, and I just feel like they are nice words that don't really mean anything to me. But I feel as though I understood this one, probably because the poems are a combination of introspective and critical which really worked for me.
A number of the poems in this collection are really inventive and interesting criticisms of colonialism. 'a case study of the colony' was a mixture of poem and short essay, about the sale of stolen pastoral land in Tasmania. The analogy of blood and memory - 'the memories run clear' - was a really powerful way to evoke the erasure and attempted destruction of First Nations people which underpins the sale of a property which has only been stolen, never sold.
And Money writes so beautifully about love! I love this quote from 'hot and cold': "if you could see this face you would let your heart be broken." She really captures that feeling of adoring someone.
A number of the poems in this collection are really inventive and interesting criticisms of colonialism. 'a case study of the colony' was a mixture of poem and short essay, about the sale of stolen pastoral land in Tasmania. The analogy of blood and memory - 'the memories run clear' - was a really powerful way to evoke the erasure and attempted destruction of First Nations people which underpins the sale of a property which has only been stolen, never sold.
And Money writes so beautifully about love! I love this quote from 'hot and cold': "if you could see this face you would let your heart be broken." She really captures that feeling of adoring someone.
ylimegwen's review
challenging
emotional
reflective
sad
tense
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? N/A
- Strong character development? N/A
- Loveable characters? N/A
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? N/A
4.5
wetdirtreads's review
4.25
This book is wonderful. Very tender. Very nourishing. I felt held by this book. Felt safe in this book. I particularly adored every expression of Blak queer love.
The way Jazz confronts and articulates the complex relationship with her father also resonated with me in a way I’d never experienced. They tell of it with candour, & without fear of what can’t quite be adequately captured or articulated, because it deserves to be expressed regardless.
The way Jazz confronts and articulates the complex relationship with her father also resonated with me in a way I’d never experienced. They tell of it with candour, & without fear of what can’t quite be adequately captured or articulated, because it deserves to be expressed regardless.
bessjoyce's review
funny
hopeful
inspiring
reflective
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? N/A
- Strong character development? N/A
- Loveable characters? N/A
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? N/A
5.0
ellesee's review
challenging
emotional
reflective
medium-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
el0ise's review
emotional
hopeful
inspiring
reflective
4.0
sings with blak queer love that really made it feel like home at times. sometimes money looked into in my soul and slapped me with what she found
everything_was_beautiful's review
emotional
funny
hopeful
mysterious
reflective
sad
slow-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
5.0
littleblackduckbooks's review
5.0
Favourites:
gununga
gully song
"there are birds/ pinned to the sky/a great emu/ to guide us home"
"I see gunyas built this morning/ the old ways by hands relearning trees releasing new homes"
we rise
"the future is technicolour blak black brown/turns out we're all welcome here/queer brothers and sisters and non-binary siblings"
if I write a poem
"and if I write a word/it's to stop me from burning/within/it's to stop me from burning/ the city down/and baring my breasts/wailing with my chapsticks/a song that boils in my chest/in my soul/that no one has taught me the words to/yet"
"and if I don't write a poem/it's for the magnificence of lightning/of cicadas in chorus/rhythms too beautiful to capture"
"and if I don't write/don't think I have nothing to say/if I don't write/it's because this language/these letters/are not worthy"
false gods
yirawulin (sunset)
bila, a river cycle
"(all folk love rivers despite their erstwhile intentions/ following in their mazdas nikes adidas/they follow where bila moves"
through the moon
"there's so much cruelty/that a pandemic/swallows/ crowds out/the suffering of those in the light/forces many more further into the dark"
/unprecedented times/
a case study of the colony
keep in touch
"unlearning is a long journey home"
my hand is a bird
"smoke of the middens burning/to make the limestone to make the mortar/build fortresses/to hold the lies strong"
I don't sleep anymore
the transit of venus
apathy
how to make a basket
"this Country is not bad/but bad happens here/hear the smoke curl around the monuments/trying to reclaim sovereign stone
we burn leaves to cleanse a place/but this/I couldn't call this smoke/a healing medicine"
"how to make a basket
first you must begin/with the grasses/first you must tend the blades/ the sweet small shoots/first you must make healthy the soil/care for this place/tend with fire/carry the seeds/ first you must make the land right. first you must love your mother"
gununga
gully song
"there are birds/ pinned to the sky/a great emu/ to guide us home"
"I see gunyas built this morning/ the old ways by hands relearning trees releasing new homes"
we rise
"the future is technicolour blak black brown/turns out we're all welcome here/queer brothers and sisters and non-binary siblings"
if I write a poem
"and if I write a word/it's to stop me from burning/within/it's to stop me from burning/ the city down/and baring my breasts/wailing with my chapsticks/a song that boils in my chest/in my soul/that no one has taught me the words to/yet"
"and if I don't write a poem/it's for the magnificence of lightning/of cicadas in chorus/rhythms too beautiful to capture"
"and if I don't write/don't think I have nothing to say/if I don't write/it's because this language/these letters/are not worthy"
false gods
yirawulin (sunset)
bila, a river cycle
"(all folk love rivers despite their erstwhile intentions/ following in their mazdas nikes adidas/they follow where bila moves"
through the moon
"there's so much cruelty/that a pandemic/swallows/ crowds out/the suffering of those in the light/forces many more further into the dark"
/unprecedented times/
a case study of the colony
keep in touch
"unlearning is a long journey home"
my hand is a bird
"smoke of the middens burning/to make the limestone to make the mortar/build fortresses/to hold the lies strong"
I don't sleep anymore
the transit of venus
apathy
how to make a basket
"this Country is not bad/but bad happens here/hear the smoke curl around the monuments/trying to reclaim sovereign stone
we burn leaves to cleanse a place/but this/I couldn't call this smoke/a healing medicine"
"how to make a basket
first you must begin/with the grasses/first you must tend the blades/ the sweet small shoots/first you must make healthy the soil/care for this place/tend with fire/carry the seeds/ first you must make the land right. first you must love your mother"