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A review by mcvemma98
[Dis]Connected: Poems & Stories of Connection and Otherwise by Michelle Halket
4.0
Potential Trigger Warnings: Alcohol abuse, death of a sibling, child abuse
Thank you to NetGalley and Central Avenue Publishing for the digital ARC of this book! Also thank you to Central Avenue Publishing for granting my wish to read this collection. All my opinions are my own.
"[Dis]Connected" is a poetry and short story anthology that I found to be so creative. Some of the most popular poets of this year came together and inspired each other's work, by writing a poem for another writer to create a short story inspired by that poem, as well as writing a poem for another writer to create a short story based of of theirs... etc. This collection came with art illustrations throughout the collection as well.
I loved this collection so much! Like I mentioned before, I found the way this collection was brought together to be so creative and original. It was such a good way to explore new writers, as well as to find new material from authors I recognized and enjoyed, such as Caitlyn Siehl and Alicia Cook for me. This collection was cohesive and worked well together, but several stories stood out from one another, taking on loss, grief, strength, healing, and more, and I enjoyed them so much. Not all stories and poems stood out for me, but most of them did, and they were all very original, and I wished some of them were full-length novels when I finished reading. Something that I was really impressed with was that all of the authors managed to make me care about their characters immediately, which I loved. I wasn't sure if I would end up liking the entire book, just because there are so many authors, and I hadn't read previous work by most of them, but I was pleasantly surprised.
These stories, as well as the authors, were full of diversity, another part of this collection I loved! "Stay With Me" by Courtney Peppernell was about a young woman mourning her girlfriend, and maybe finding new love. "Wrapped in Distance" by Komal Kapoor was a story of a young woman's family getting ready for meeting her brother's potential new bride, and how she felt that she was probably not the Indian daughter her parents wanted. These were some of my favourite stories in this collection. I enjoyed reading about these character's lives, and learning a little bit about them.
I had so many favourites in this collection. "What The Wild Gave Me" by Wilder, "Halo" by Caitlyn Siehl, "The Fourth Saturday" by Alicia Cook, and "Get Up" by Raquel Franco, as well as the stories I mentioned before were the highlights of the collection for me. I typically found that the poetry did not really stick out for me, not because I didn't like them, but because they were typically only one or two pages long, sitting at intervals between the short stories, which were much longer in comparison.
Overall, I loved this incredibly diverse, original, emotional collection so much. Even though I found the poetry could get lost easily in the short stories, I enjoyed pretty much everything I read.
Thank you to NetGalley and Central Avenue Publishing for the digital ARC of this book! Also thank you to Central Avenue Publishing for granting my wish to read this collection. All my opinions are my own.
"[Dis]Connected" is a poetry and short story anthology that I found to be so creative. Some of the most popular poets of this year came together and inspired each other's work, by writing a poem for another writer to create a short story inspired by that poem, as well as writing a poem for another writer to create a short story based of of theirs... etc. This collection came with art illustrations throughout the collection as well.
I loved this collection so much! Like I mentioned before, I found the way this collection was brought together to be so creative and original. It was such a good way to explore new writers, as well as to find new material from authors I recognized and enjoyed, such as Caitlyn Siehl and Alicia Cook for me. This collection was cohesive and worked well together, but several stories stood out from one another, taking on loss, grief, strength, healing, and more, and I enjoyed them so much. Not all stories and poems stood out for me, but most of them did, and they were all very original, and I wished some of them were full-length novels when I finished reading. Something that I was really impressed with was that all of the authors managed to make me care about their characters immediately, which I loved. I wasn't sure if I would end up liking the entire book, just because there are so many authors, and I hadn't read previous work by most of them, but I was pleasantly surprised.
These stories, as well as the authors, were full of diversity, another part of this collection I loved! "Stay With Me" by Courtney Peppernell was about a young woman mourning her girlfriend, and maybe finding new love. "Wrapped in Distance" by Komal Kapoor was a story of a young woman's family getting ready for meeting her brother's potential new bride, and how she felt that she was probably not the Indian daughter her parents wanted. These were some of my favourite stories in this collection. I enjoyed reading about these character's lives, and learning a little bit about them.
I had so many favourites in this collection. "What The Wild Gave Me" by Wilder, "Halo" by Caitlyn Siehl, "The Fourth Saturday" by Alicia Cook, and "Get Up" by Raquel Franco, as well as the stories I mentioned before were the highlights of the collection for me. I typically found that the poetry did not really stick out for me, not because I didn't like them, but because they were typically only one or two pages long, sitting at intervals between the short stories, which were much longer in comparison.
Overall, I loved this incredibly diverse, original, emotional collection so much. Even though I found the poetry could get lost easily in the short stories, I enjoyed pretty much everything I read.