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A review by girlpdf
Crow College: New and Selected Poems by Emma Lew
4.0
i saw emma lew read on friday night. today is monday and i have reserved this collection, walked to the library, picked up this collection, and read this collection. recognise my sense of urgency!
abrupt, terse, dark, sometimes reading like short fiction — there is machinery in this poetry, it operates, it generates, it doesn't answer anything. at their best, these poems come into your body like a shiver. but there's humour, too, and socialism, and history. and a lot of europe!
i prefer the works from her second collection and her new stuff. her first collection didn't grab at me the way the rest did, there were some cliches, it didn't feel as strange. but i really thoroughly enjoyed the last two segments of the book pretty much without exception.
my favourites are riot eve, plantain, poker for money, and man coming back as a bird.
abrupt, terse, dark, sometimes reading like short fiction — there is machinery in this poetry, it operates, it generates, it doesn't answer anything. at their best, these poems come into your body like a shiver. but there's humour, too, and socialism, and history. and a lot of europe!
i prefer the works from her second collection and her new stuff. her first collection didn't grab at me the way the rest did, there were some cliches, it didn't feel as strange. but i really thoroughly enjoyed the last two segments of the book pretty much without exception.
my favourites are riot eve, plantain, poker for money, and man coming back as a bird.