Monday 9 May 2022

5 Poems for When You've Been Ghosted


It happens to the best of us, doesn't it? The waiting, the yearning, the checking your phone every minute and a half because maybe you've just missed it, maybe you didn't feel the buzz in your back pocket this time and they're waiting for your reply. But sometimes, they aren't. Here's to the rest of us whose hearts ache from the possibility more than anything.

Monday 2 May 2022

Book Review: Woman, Eating by Claire Kohda

  

   

     Title: Woman, Eating
     Author: Claire Kohda
     Published: April 12th 2022 @ Harpervia
     Genre: Urban Fantasy, Literary Fiction
    

     Rating: ⭐




“Lydia,” she said, using my full name, which she only did when she was angry. “Do you think God would feed a body like yours?”


Saturday 30 April 2022

Book Review: The Cartographers by Peng Shepherd

 


           Title: The Cartographers
            Author: Peng Shepherd
            Published: March 15th 2022 @ William Morrow
            Genre: Urban Fantasy  


            Rating: ⭐



“Maps are love letters written to times and places their makers had explored.”


Friday 8 May 2020

The City We Became by N.K. Jemisin



Title: The City We Became (Great Cities #1) 
Author: N.K. Jemisin 
Date Read: April 30 2020
Published: March 24 2020 @ Orbit 
Genre: Urban Fantasy  

Rating: ⭐





"I stand on the rooftop of a building I don’t live in and spread my arms and tighten my middle and yell nonsense ululations at the construction site that blocks my view. I’m really singing to the cityscape beyond. The city’ll figure it out."



Tuesday 21 April 2020

5 Poems by Christian Wiman



"Poet, translator, editor, and essayist Christian Wiman was raised in West Texas and earned a BA at Washington and Lee University. A former Guggenheim fellow, Wiman served as the editor of Poetry magazine from 2003 to 2013. He received an honorary doctorate from North Central College." (The Poetry Foundation)