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imogenrose97's review
adventurous
emotional
funny
informative
inspiring
reflective
sad
4.0
Books composed in interesting ways always intrigue me, each poem in this collection had a corresponding artwork that was either inspired by the poem or vice versa. That alone made me want to pick this up. The art inside is stunning, I enjoyed comparing the words to the writing to find connections in them.
fishfish's review
challenging
dark
emotional
hopeful
informative
inspiring
reflective
sad
tense
fast-paced
4.0
bibliotron's review
adventurous
emotional
hopeful
informative
inspiring
reflective
relaxing
medium-paced
4.75
I really loved this book. Each poem is paired with an artwork, and the poems themselves use space on the page, and different word layouts, to really playfully explore the page. I'm not good at reading poetry, but I found that these extra visual layers meant I could really savour each poem.
This book is so joyful, thankful, thoughtful, and full of Blak joy, beauty and queerness. Kirli's poems show what it means to be held by your Ancestors, to be held by Country, to be held by your family. It balances truth-telling with an intimate view of what healing looks like from an Aboriginal perspective.
One of my favourite poems was about the safety she feels when she calls her mum on 'the bad days' - at the end reflecting on how her mother, as part of the Stolen Generation, never had that. In this way, it brought a lot of the truth-telling I've read into a more personal space of connection.
It also shows what everyday issues, and in particular queerness, look like through the loving lens of the Old Ones and the Old Ways. It was able to soothe the sense of despair I sometimes feel reading works of truth-telling, and instead I feel invited to dive deeper into our history and the role we all need to play in healing.
This book is so joyful, thankful, thoughtful, and full of Blak joy, beauty and queerness. Kirli's poems show what it means to be held by your Ancestors, to be held by Country, to be held by your family. It balances truth-telling with an intimate view of what healing looks like from an Aboriginal perspective.
One of my favourite poems was about the safety she feels when she calls her mum on 'the bad days' - at the end reflecting on how her mother, as part of the Stolen Generation, never had that. In this way, it brought a lot of the truth-telling I've read into a more personal space of connection.
It also shows what everyday issues, and in particular queerness, look like through the loving lens of the Old Ones and the Old Ways. It was able to soothe the sense of despair I sometimes feel reading works of truth-telling, and instead I feel invited to dive deeper into our history and the role we all need to play in healing.
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