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bookspotlight · 1 year

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Review Roundup: The Orc Who Saved Christmas (2023), No Period (2020), She Was the Storm (2018), Super Gay (2022), Symphony of Secrets (2022)

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fairrryprose · 2 years

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under her skin - a women in horror poetry collection ⭐⭐⭐⭐

a beautiful collection of body horror relating to feminine rage that is at once soothing and comforting as it is wrenchingly gruesome. a representation of - an ode to - the ways in which women are subjugated under society - physically, spiritually, souls sucked out and threatened to be crushed - and also how they reclaim their power. at once a railing against the crushing weight of the world and a rallying cry, through body horror imagery. some poems were so beautifully-crafted - with vivid imagery, amazing literary techniques, breathtakingly astounding resonance - and some read like stories, others fairytales, and yet others like confessionals, like journal entries.

the collection ends on some truly amazing poems, going out with a bang that will leave you shivering.

there were also some really pretty illustrations to go along with some of the poems !!!

of course, for all the great pieces, there were some that faltered for me, feeling out-of-place and a bit weak - not-as-well-constructed. they felt too simplistic and didn't live up to the same emotional resonance as the others.

as a whole, this anthology will truly creep under your skin.

excerpt of probably my favourite poem:

THE LAST WOMAN

by Tiffany Michelle Brown

I want to feel all of you,

He says,

And his voice is an oil slick,

Intent on staining my skin

With blood and bad intentions.

I smile, knowing he’s about to get much more than he paid for,

And then I oblige,

Allowing cotton, then silk, then bone

To fall to the floor.

He tries to run, except

There’s nowhere to go but

Down, down, down.

He stares into my throat as I approach,

And the pink folds invite him in,

Head, shoulders, knees, and toes.

He tastes of skinned knees,

Uncauterized wounds,

Protests muffled by hotel pillows.

My esophagus welcomes him into its slippery embrace,

And I can feel him scream as peristalsis kicks in.

Contract, relax.

My body purrs when he’s fully submerged and

Gastric juices break him down

Churning and burning until he’s mine,

Nothing more than chyme.

I absorb his rage, his power, his sadness,

All the things he used to employ

To unwillingly pin

Others beneath him.

I convulse and contort,

Taking him in,

Swallowing his poison.

Afterward, I lay on the hotel mattress,

Trembling, coming down from the high,

Naked and smoking and soaked in sweat.

I think of the shoes I’ll buy

With the crumpled-up cash on the nightstand,

Blood money turned beautiful,

And lick my lips.

When I’m finally sated and still,

I smile, imagining him

And the way he looked

When he realized I was the last woman

He’d ever fuck

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outerblog · 14 days

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It was a joy to read and review Dominique Hecq's chapbook of prose poems, Endgame with No Ending.

#poetry #poetry reviews #prose poetry #dominique hecq #surrealist poetry

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bookerplays · 1 year

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Agenda turns a new page

I’m thrilled have two poems in the final issue of Agenda edited by the legendary Patricia McCarthy. Stepping Stones (or Volume 55, Nos 3-4 to those of a bibliographic mind!) is a beauty in both form and content, and a fine finish after two decades of Patricia’s curatorship. “Agenda is being taken over by the University of St Andrews, with the illustrious poet and Professor John Burnside as the…

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#Agenda #Celtic #Claire Booker #contemporary poems #Horses #John Burnside #new poetry #Patricia McCarthy #poetry reviews #Stepping Stones #University of St Andrews

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ancientsstudies · 9 months

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I am too fond of reading books to care to write them.

ig credit: vintagesoul_reads.

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ivynightshade · 9 months

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fatima aamer bilal, from being unwanted is a language.

[text id: the world is happening in a room that i can't enter, life is happening in a gathering i am not invited to. / being unwanted is a language i am fluent in.]

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deadlypoetacademia · 9 months

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I mean it when I say that my reading list is longer than my life expectancy.

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luthienne · 2 years

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claire schwartz, from poetry rx as featured in the paris review

#claire schwartz #the paris review #poetry rx #words #poetry #typography #sometimes forever isn’t a measure of time #…#on loss #on friendship

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chthonic-empyrean · 14 days

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أنت ذلك الـ "لا شيء" عندما يسألني الناس عما أفكر فيه

You're that "nothing" when people ask me what I'm thinking about."

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herigo · 3 months

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welcometogrouchland · 4 months

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I understand that literature nerd Jason Todd is kind of overblown in fanon compared to it's actual presence in canon (a few issues during his pre (and post?)crisis Robin tenure that highlight it) BUT consider that I think it's hilarious if the unhinged gun toting criminal has strong opinions on poetry