Anthologies - my daughter bought me the Taylor Swift inspired one for Xmas so I need to go back to that xo My favourite is always Best American Poetry and I loved Personal Best which also had essays by the poets on the work❤️
Oooh I don’t know of the Best American Poetry one. The Taylor Swift inspired one id had in mind for later this year, that has been on my list for ages. Have you enjoyed the pieces you’ve read so far? C
Thank you for sharing your thoughts and insights on Bad Betties- they pretty much echoed mine (with a sigh of relief). The opening poem did not pull me in but further in, I found some real gems including Ellora Sutton’s In a Dream …… , those lines “The rocking horse creaks and dreams of the open window/The window is a cake of lemon-yellow curtains/It is hot like a real horse between my legs’
Others were Jasmine Gray’s Interview (I), Erdem Avsar’s this till is now closed (which like you, gripped me) and Honey Baxter’s o to be liz taylor which made me smile a lot, especially the vision of her ‘swear(ing) like a coal miner in a pub in port talbot’
I’ve not read all the poems yet and will continue to dip in and explore and discover. Looking forward to the next collection
Thanks for commenting Lindsay. You've had me heading back in to read Ellora Sutton again this morning and I've not stopped thinking about the line "The window is a cake of lemon-yellow curtains" ever since you pulled it out. THIS is what I love about a book club. I would have missed that line for definite. Why do you reckon she didn't use capital letters for Liz Taylor do you think? There's not capital letters throughout is there. It seems to work but I can't work out why.
I wonder. I also thought about the non-capitalisation of Erdem Avsar’s title. I teach primary school and feel myself stiffen when I see missing capital letters and full stops - haha. I read back again and for me the lack of punctuation together with the use of the forward slash (instead of line breaks) allows the poem to pick up an accelerated rjythmn as I read it. The galloping pace mirroring the rollercoaster ‘no rules allowed’ life of our subject maybe.
Haha, I bet that punctuation stands out for you! Yes it def does gallop doesn’t it. Maybe it’s suggesting she’s “one of us”? Or that she wouldn’t want to be put on a pedestal maybe. Hmm it’s intrigued me that x
Anthologies - my daughter bought me the Taylor Swift inspired one for Xmas so I need to go back to that xo My favourite is always Best American Poetry and I loved Personal Best which also had essays by the poets on the work❤️
Oooh I don’t know of the Best American Poetry one. The Taylor Swift inspired one id had in mind for later this year, that has been on my list for ages. Have you enjoyed the pieces you’ve read so far? C
Thank you for sharing your thoughts and insights on Bad Betties- they pretty much echoed mine (with a sigh of relief). The opening poem did not pull me in but further in, I found some real gems including Ellora Sutton’s In a Dream …… , those lines “The rocking horse creaks and dreams of the open window/The window is a cake of lemon-yellow curtains/It is hot like a real horse between my legs’
Others were Jasmine Gray’s Interview (I), Erdem Avsar’s this till is now closed (which like you, gripped me) and Honey Baxter’s o to be liz taylor which made me smile a lot, especially the vision of her ‘swear(ing) like a coal miner in a pub in port talbot’
I’ve not read all the poems yet and will continue to dip in and explore and discover. Looking forward to the next collection
Thanks for commenting Lindsay. You've had me heading back in to read Ellora Sutton again this morning and I've not stopped thinking about the line "The window is a cake of lemon-yellow curtains" ever since you pulled it out. THIS is what I love about a book club. I would have missed that line for definite. Why do you reckon she didn't use capital letters for Liz Taylor do you think? There's not capital letters throughout is there. It seems to work but I can't work out why.
I wonder. I also thought about the non-capitalisation of Erdem Avsar’s title. I teach primary school and feel myself stiffen when I see missing capital letters and full stops - haha. I read back again and for me the lack of punctuation together with the use of the forward slash (instead of line breaks) allows the poem to pick up an accelerated rjythmn as I read it. The galloping pace mirroring the rollercoaster ‘no rules allowed’ life of our subject maybe.
Haha, I bet that punctuation stands out for you! Yes it def does gallop doesn’t it. Maybe it’s suggesting she’s “one of us”? Or that she wouldn’t want to be put on a pedestal maybe. Hmm it’s intrigued me that x