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A review by seedwa
It Is Daylight by Arda Collins
challenging
reflective
medium-paced
1.25
Unfortunately this did not meet the hype.
The poetry was very quintessential ‘masters of fine arts’ writing - if you know you know. Very cyclical, empty poems with an intention to pull out the visceral and violent of the mundane. This ultimately worked against the poets voice, producing repetitive work that eroded the underlying meaning and exhausted the reader in the dull, piling on top of the mountains of collections that attempt to do the exact same. It possibly would have been a much better collection if the majority of the poems had been cut to create a strong, small set. Alas, it was not so, and the exercise of reading the collection remained trite and disappointing. A collection to be forgotten as the years go on.
The poetry was very quintessential ‘masters of fine arts’ writing - if you know you know. Very cyclical, empty poems with an intention to pull out the visceral and violent of the mundane. This ultimately worked against the poets voice, producing repetitive work that eroded the underlying meaning and exhausted the reader in the dull, piling on top of the mountains of collections that attempt to do the exact same. It possibly would have been a much better collection if the majority of the poems had been cut to create a strong, small set. Alas, it was not so, and the exercise of reading the collection remained trite and disappointing. A collection to be forgotten as the years go on.