4thace@books.theunseen.city reviewed Watering can by Caroline Bird
An interesting collection of madcap poems
3 stars
Some of these poems were long, but I didn't have the problem I tend to have with long poems. They managed to tell a sort of narrative in a daffy way so I never had a chance to grow impatient. They generally used considerable playfulness whether of language or tweaking our expectations. To me the poetic part was muted compared to her work I have read by this author because it was too easy to think of them as surreal stories that were packaged into short lines. The ones that specifically strayed from this pattern such as "Perspectives," a poem in response to a piece of Old English verse, were more along the the line of what I had expected from this author.
Some of these poems were long, but I didn't have the problem I tend to have with long poems. They managed to tell a sort of narrative in a daffy way so I never had a chance to grow impatient. They generally used considerable playfulness whether of language or tweaking our expectations. To me the poetic part was muted compared to her work I have read by this author because it was too easy to think of them as surreal stories that were packaged into short lines. The ones that specifically strayed from this pattern such as "Perspectives," a poem in response to a piece of Old English verse, were more along the the line of what I had expected from this author.