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caitsidhe's review
emotional
funny
hopeful
reflective
relaxing
fast-paced
3.0
Not my preferred style of poetry, but there's skill here
foggy_rosamund's review
3.0
Bell has a very distinctive voice: her poem's directness and pithiness are very much her own, and she does not sound like any other modern poet. Her strongest poems are wonderful: I think she particularly comes into her own when describing nature, archaeology and the water-ways with which she, living on a canal-boat, knows so well. Her poems about relationships were less successful: I felt they lacked real insight, and worked only because her word-choices remain original. I am impressed by this collection, though, and would read more by her.
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