The collection consists of retellings of fairy tales, and it’s hard not to think of something like Angela Carter’s The Bloody Chamber while reading it. There’s a similar sense of…
Transformations by Anne Sexton
Ariel by Sylvia Plath
This is first time I’ve properly sat down and read Ariel as a complete collection, and I wasn’t surprised by how immediately it clicked for me and how much I…
Surge by Jay Bernard
Surge by Jay Bernard is a haunting yet deeply life-affirming collection of poetry. It responds to the tragic events of the 1981 New Cross Fire in London: a birthday party…
maybe ill call gillian anderson by Rhian Elizabeth
I love reading poetry collections, but they feel harder to review than novels! This poetry collection was published on 31st May 2025 by Broken Sleep Books: a working class publisher all…
Woman Without Shame: Poems by Sandra Cisneros
Funny, powerful, tragic, visceral, intelligent, lively…. Just some of the words I’d use to describe these poems. Of House on Mango Street fame, Cisneros is a versatile poet and storyteller,…