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Too Young, Too Loud, Too Different: Twenty Years of British Poetry from Malika's Poetry Kitchen by Roger Robinson, Malika Booker, Kayo Chingonyi, Inua Ellams, Rishi Dastidar, Warsan Shire, Maisie Lawrence, Dean Atta
4.0
Too Young, Too Loud, Too Different is a collection of poems by poets from poetry collective Malika's Poetry Kitchen, with a wide range of poetry within its pages. The collection starts with a history of the collective, which is interesting and felt like a reminder of what people can do together, and then the poems themselves cover a range of topics and styles.
Having such a selection of poets and fairly short poems makes this an ideal collection to dip into, or you can immerse yourself into the whole collection at once as the book itself is also quite short. I enjoyed the fact I'd heard of some of the poets and not heard of others, and I particularly liked some of the poems that were using more experimental and fresh approaches to form and structure within a small space. As with any collection of different poets, everyone will like particular poems more; some of my favourites were 'For the Young Men Popping Wheelies on Southwark Street in Late Afternoon Traffic', 'London Fields', and 'Truncated checklist for a Gothic novel'.
Having such a selection of poets and fairly short poems makes this an ideal collection to dip into, or you can immerse yourself into the whole collection at once as the book itself is also quite short. I enjoyed the fact I'd heard of some of the poets and not heard of others, and I particularly liked some of the poems that were using more experimental and fresh approaches to form and structure within a small space. As with any collection of different poets, everyone will like particular poems more; some of my favourites were 'For the Young Men Popping Wheelies on Southwark Street in Late Afternoon Traffic', 'London Fields', and 'Truncated checklist for a Gothic novel'.