battlepoet reviewed Blessings of Fire and Ice by Connla Freyjason
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4 stars
This is a book of poetry for the heathen liturgical year. If you are a heathen who likes poetry, you might enjoy this! There's lots of poems here you could use in ritual.
I like his poems well enough, but… there’s a lot of “I” statements in these poems. It threw me off sometimes, because I guess I expected the poetry to be more deity-centric? There's a strong thread between the devotee and the divine, certainly. That might work for some folks! I think the issue is that forcing myself to read the same poet every day is a bit intense--picking it up randomly for light reading might work better for me.
On the whole though, it’s nice to read heathen poetry and think about the deities I worship, rather than read Christian poetry and try to distantly sorta-kinda relate it to the deities I worship.