A review by msteasam
The Bee Hut by Dorothy Porter

4.0

"Every poet wants to write the poem
that penetrates
with the ice-cold shock
of the Devil's prick

The poem that will fuck you awake
or kill you."

What a beautifully evocative poetry collection. There's a perceptible undercurrent of existential dread woven through this collection, which was written during the author's final years.

I haven't read much poetry and a few references went over my head, but this was great overall.

What thrilling doors of perception
open
to the musky ooze
of panting paralysed
terror?