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A review by lucysgoodfellow
Submerge by K.Y. Robinson
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⭐⭐ 2 Stars
A collection of heartfelt poetry that sometimes bordered on the line between lyrical and amaturish.
Although I enjoyed the politically relevant poetry I found some of the shorter poems to just not pack the same kind of punch as the longer ones. It felt like the writer was just trying to fill up space between the longer poems so this could be a book rather than a pamphlet.
My favourite poems in the collection were about the writer's experiences as a woman of colour and how this has impacted her life personally along with the lives of her family and friends. I would love to read a collection that focussed more on this rather than the female experience as a whole. And I would read [a:K.Y. Robinson|15294122|K.Y. Robinson|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1507041033p2/15294122.jpg] work again because it takes a good poet to have an entire book using one motif and for it not to get boring.
But I only bookmarked 7 poems out of this 160-page collection which summarises my feelings on it as a whole. Not life-changing but not terrible.
⚠Trigger Warnings⚠: mental illness, sexual trauma, self-harm, racism, and violence.
I received this book as an ARC via NetGalley
A collection of heartfelt poetry that sometimes bordered on the line between lyrical and amaturish.
Although I enjoyed the politically relevant poetry I found some of the shorter poems to just not pack the same kind of punch as the longer ones. It felt like the writer was just trying to fill up space between the longer poems so this could be a book rather than a pamphlet.
My favourite poems in the collection were about the writer's experiences as a woman of colour and how this has impacted her life personally along with the lives of her family and friends. I would love to read a collection that focussed more on this rather than the female experience as a whole. And I would read [a:K.Y. Robinson|15294122|K.Y. Robinson|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1507041033p2/15294122.jpg] work again because it takes a good poet to have an entire book using one motif and for it not to get boring.
But I only bookmarked 7 poems out of this 160-page collection which summarises my feelings on it as a whole. Not life-changing but not terrible.
⚠Trigger Warnings⚠: mental illness, sexual trauma, self-harm, racism, and violence.
I received this book as an ARC via NetGalley