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Smoke Encrypted Whispers by Samuel Wagan Watson

fioni's review against another edition

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reflective relaxing fast-paced

3.0

mixed bag. i will say watson has a talent for evoking very strong imagery but i vastly prefer poems with rhyme schemes, so this type of 

poetry where 
every poem consists of
randomly placed 
line breaks 
does not
really do it for me.

and what's with using the word 'bitumen' in almost every poem? it got really annoying.

sleepyeyes's review against another edition

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reflective tense slow-paced

3.0

jacquelinepon's review against another edition

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adventurous hopeful inspiring mysterious reflective fast-paced

4.0

mahtzahgay's review against another edition

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dark emotional reflective fast-paced

4.75

yannan_mw's review against another edition

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dark emotional inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

keeley331's review against another edition

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challenging emotional informative reflective slow-paced

4.0

abigel_wright's review against another edition

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4.0

A raw, yet colloquial yet wise collection of poems about growing up, identity and discrimination in a beautifully crafted landscape of Brisbane's suburbs.
Normally I am skeptical about Australian literature but this was remarkable.
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