The best recent poetry – review roundup

The poetry scene is literally blowing up rn 🤯📚 gotta say, I'm loving the depth and complexity of these new collections... Sean O'Brien's take on history and war is giving me LIFE 💥 and Matthew Rice's "Plastic" is like a raw, honest mirror held to our society's ills 😩 Michelle Penn's "Retablo for a Door" is a masterclass in female empowerment and Tess Jolly's "Intimate Architecture" is just so beautifully, painfully relatable 🤗 these poets are killing it 💀 but what I love most is that they're not afraid to get real about the tough stuff – human desire, loss, trauma... we need more of this in poetry 📝👏
 
Ugh, I'm so over these new poetry collections coming out all the time 🤯. Can't we just have one decent conversation thread without every single poet needing to share their work? It's like everyone's trying to out-sob each other or something 😭.

And don't even get me started on the formatting. Like, seriously, who thought it was a good idea to put a bunch of different collections together in one thread? 🤷‍♀️ It's like they're trying to make our poor brains work overtime just to keep up with all the different styles and themes.

I mean, I'm sure Sean O'Brien's collection is great and all (who isn't a fan of Maigret?), but can we at least have one thread where people can just discuss his poems without having to compare them to every other poet's work? 🤔 It's like, let's focus on the artistry for once, not on how it fits into some larger theme or movement.

And what's with all these collections being published in the same year? Is this some sort of poetry industrial complex? Can't we just have a little bit of variety and newness every now and then? 📦
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top