milk and honey

Just released my Worst 2020 Books Video - now that you know this one made the list, click the link to find the rest! The Written Review ah. i finally understand. it's not the words that matter, but the spaces between. -a slightly sarcastic review - I'm not normally a poetry person and this book did

2/7/2017 I get likes on this review daily and for a long time i've felt like a 3-star review was too generous so I lowered it to 2 today, which is more accurate in hindsight. 7/11/2016 If I could sum up my thoughts about this book, it would just be, "Oh." Honestly, very underwhelming. I'm not sure why p Leggi tutto

*laughs awkwardly* That just happened. If I had known I could write a bestselling book of poetry by putting random thoughts on blank paper and making them look ~pretty,~ I would be a millionaire by now. i don't understand the point of breaking sentences up like this for the sake of wasting paper and my t Leggi tutto

I read this in a bookshop. I wanted to give it zero stars. It's not poetry. It's shamefully derivitive and doesn't employ any poetic devices except for the most cliched - and not to positive effect. Random line breaks and sentence fragments are used because it is what is expected of a poem, but the

While Rupi Kaur seems very passionate and while I agree with her politics, content, and message, that doesn't make this writing very good. Some of the poems are excellent and will draw you in, but mainly, they are very overrated in terms of pure quality. I see why her poems are popular, but not why

maybe these poems are just words randomly separated by hitting enter or maybe I just don't get poetry trigger warnings : rape, abuse

2016 was a year of poetry for me. I read more poetry than I ever have before, I wrote more poetry than I knew I was capable of, and I even started performing poetry. Milk and Honey was one of the catalysts for this, written by an author from a town near me, of very similar age to me, powerful and ra Leggi tutto

milk and honey tore through my analytical mind and burrowed deep into my ultra-sensitive soul. It slayed all my emotions, my feminist desires, and my love for vulnerable writing. I may not know a lot about poetry, but I do know a decent amount about feelings, and Rupi Kaur brought all my feelings tu Leggi tutto