Book(s)

These poems are like picking from a crystal candy bowl beside manic-depressive Sylvia Plath’s typewriter, the sweeties exotically bitter or spicy hot. Blood-stained knickers and bleach-drinking mothers, asylum-disorienting imagery, whimpering glass, wrought iron Gothic prose, steeple sharp.” – Outcast Press

The two poems that garnered my full attention from the get-go were “Mother Cauldron” and “Saturn (De)vours.” There was a line that immediately gripped me in “Mother Cauldron.” And again, the mere titles of these works will give you pause. And then it’s as if you’re running through the words, and you do catch them.” – Marquis de Joker

Such a distinctive voice, with a hint of Sexton’s anger and tendency to embrace grotesque imagery. June Bug and a handful of the other poems felt like a modern update and twist on Plath’s Mad Girl’s Love Song, adopting a sing song repetition. Camden and Calypso were my favourite poems in the collection.” – Kirsty Niven