Again, I want to reiterate that poetry is a subjective thing, and if you find some hidden meaning in those words or it resonates with you- Im happy for you! To me though, they seem quite surface level and lazy. Just because you click the enter button a couple of times does not turn a sentence into poetry. Here are some examples of short ones that didn't connect with me. A strange combination I know, but that sums up my feelings for most of 'Nineteen'Īdditionally, I tend to like longer poems as opposed to shorter. To me, this poem feels melodramatic, but lacking emotion. That maybe this time we could be the perfect pairīut then you open my message and don’t reply and leave me just wondering why… “You fool me each and every time into thinking you care You’ll look back at old pictures and swear that was just yesterday and then realise that yesterday was ten years ago."īut one I didn’t, focused on heartbreak was: “Soon enough you’ll be thirty and wondering how the hell you got from here to there. Instead, those focused on families, nostalgia, regrets, change and life lessons seem to be my favourite.įor example, the beginning of a poem from this collection that I loved with nostalgia as a main theme: As a general rule that I don’t find poems centred around love, heartache or betrayal to hit the hardest.
I have found that for me to enjoy poetry, it needs to have grit and depth.
I am beginning to discover what works for me and what doesn't in modern poetry. (ironically heavily featuring some of things I say later in this review I don't like, primarily being narrated by the goddess of love herself.) My favourite of which so far being ‘Aphrodite Made Me Do It’ by Trista Mateer. I want to preface this by saying that poetry is subjective and personal, which is part of the reason why I love it so much! Unfortunately, that makes it harder to find works I love- but when I do, it is like finding a diamond in the rough and very satisfying. Modern poetry gets a bad rep, and I don’t want to be that person who reads it for the sake of hating and bashing it- condensing a whole genre into a single one star review.
My main problem was just that it didn’t evoke the emotion in me that is so critical for my enjoyment of poetry. Overall, the writing was done well, especially for such a young author. I connected with these.Nineteen is a collection of poetry and prose written by Mackenzie Campbell, titled after the age at which she wrote it. The poems aren’t necessary very deep but they felt very real and powerful at times. The poems felt very real to me as if the poet was sharing her own memories and experiences with me. I enjoyed the concept of this collection, poems focused around areas that hold specific memories of a lost love such as the coffee shop where the lovers met. I really enjoyed this and will track down 2am Thoughts. (Central Avenue Publishing, 3 March 2020, 192 pages, e-book, copy from the publisher via # NetGalley and voluntarily reviewed) You can feel the healing as you sit in the driver’s seat, in charge of your own life. You can feel the hope at the coffee shop where a beginning happened. You can feel the heartbreak inside the bedroom where you lost a love. You can paint over it, but it will always be there. For every place we go, there is a feeling or memory that’s been painted on the walls.
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