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A review by joss
Crown Noble by Bianca Phipps
3.0
This book of poetry is a really beautiful exploration of family relationships, grief, and the tensions within human emotion; both within us as individuals and between us and the others in our lives. It provides a touching and heartbreaking window into a family broken and torn apart, with particular attention to the mother-daughter and father-daughter relationship.
It's often very difficult to stand out amongst the ranks of modern poetry, but some of these poems felt completely fresh and original, with especially inventive and quirky use of form, presentation and language - some poems were throughly arresting.
However, there were a few poems that just didn't work for me. Sometimes this was due to (what felt like to me) an excessive use of repetition; repeated words and phrases. I know this is a particular style, and for some it works really well, and it certainly places emphasis on the central subject of a poem. But it often felt more like a gimmick than effective and that marred some of the poems for me.
Other poems sometimes felt distant from me as a reader, like the speaker held a secret that the reader is not permitted to access. Sometimes this was rectified with more information as the "story" progresses through the poems, and this was a lovely aspect of this collection.
In a sentence - this is an emotive and raw exposition of deeply personal experience, and it feels like a privilege to read these words.
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I received an ARC on Netgalley - all opinions are my own.
It's often very difficult to stand out amongst the ranks of modern poetry, but some of these poems felt completely fresh and original, with especially inventive and quirky use of form, presentation and language - some poems were throughly arresting.
However, there were a few poems that just didn't work for me. Sometimes this was due to (what felt like to me) an excessive use of repetition; repeated words and phrases. I know this is a particular style, and for some it works really well, and it certainly places emphasis on the central subject of a poem. But it often felt more like a gimmick than effective and that marred some of the poems for me.
Other poems sometimes felt distant from me as a reader, like the speaker held a secret that the reader is not permitted to access. Sometimes this was rectified with more information as the "story" progresses through the poems, and this was a lovely aspect of this collection.
In a sentence - this is an emotive and raw exposition of deeply personal experience, and it feels like a privilege to read these words.
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I received an ARC on Netgalley - all opinions are my own.