An artist that works in pictures, a poet who writes poems in snapshots both seem to go together.
The poems in “the poems: 2020” induce multifarious emotions through his restless poetic structuring of an authentic and glooming range of emotions that reflect light on the reality of life.
Luisa brings her signature sharp, shrewd, exquisite language about her personal and family histories and marks how immigration leads to world-wide revolution.
Ren’s latest poetic collection The Elephants Have Been Singing All Along showcases different phases through which a body goes and tends to suffer and enjoy the various elements
Steen’s Dream Passages leaves behind a vivid description of nature, home, beach, window and garden. The poems include impressions of common household items which adds more simplicity and relatability to the reading.
Christina’s debut collection “To the Man in the Red Suit” shows a cavernous world of darkness and the aftermath of a father’s suicide.
They are an assembly of words called on to negotiate the fine line between succumbing to life’s onslaughts and prevailing over them.
Steen writes gripping, thrilling poems in this thoughtful collection. It’s everything you’d want in a poetry book. His lines get under your skin as if he gets how you really feel.
A number of the early items predate even Deformity Lover, some of them thought lost until recently.
I freely admit that there’s much modern poetry that I don’t understand. A lot of it is probably very good and profound, I’m just not smart enough to appreciate it. So it was with some trepidation that I began reading A Fine Line, a collection of poetry by Australian writer Dianne Bates.