For fifty years, she has trained to slay wyrms - but none have appeared since the Nameless One, and the younger generation. You may think this therefore moves away from the encouragement readers might be looking for to help them move past their own pain, but it doesn’t, or from the lyrical beauty of a heart-felt or raw piece which readers can relate to, but it doesn’t. it is also really interesting as it goes between the pov being of the author and being of the goddess aphrodite, but seeing themselves within eachother.

I usually really enjoy longer poems, but here, the supposed longer poems aren't giving me what they are suppose to : they usually consist of a succession of short sentences that seem more like a bullet-pointed draft than an actual poem. This book is perfect for anyone struggling with their own healing process and anyone trying to find meaning to their own life. aphrodite then (as the feminist, lgbt icon she is) explains the power of love and forgiveness to our narrator. In this way some of her work was perhaps lessened by her execution when it could have had a much greater impact if delivered in another way. It actually feels more like an account of things Aphrodite taught the narrator in anecdotal style, which was a strange approach.The poems here combine to make a feminist manifesto that inspires strength, courage, pride, and a negation of all society deems a woman's body to be and all the multitudes it actually contains.

After a poem introducing the author’s voice and relationship to love, she goes on to explain a dream she had in which Aphrodite visited her and asked, “What do you need? Bestselling and award-winning author Trista Mateer takes an imaginative approach to self-care in this new poetry and prose collection, Aphrodite Made Me Do It . Known for her eponymous blog, she is now the author of multiple poetry collections, including When The Stars Wrote Back (2020), Aphrodite Made Me Do It (2019), Honeybee (2018), and The Dogs I Have Kissed (2015) which won a Goodreads Choice Award the year of its release. The feeling and expression of strong emotions acts as the healthy catharsis that can allow poet/goddess/woman to open her heart to the peace, self-love and joy that she deserves. There are multiple images throughout which felt a little juvenile – they genuinely looked like images captured from google with clip art attached, or were images with poignant quotes on which you’d often see scrolling along your chosen social media platform.This collection is based around mythology and is also about strength, empowerment and self-appreciation. The standout part was Aphrodite without question as it seemed to question deeper topics we tend to shy away from. No tenía idea de que iba el libro pero es hermoso, lo recomiendo mucho y se ha convertido en uno de mis libros favoritos. It was a short read with beautiful words, but at the same time, it felt like scrolling through someone's poetry-inspired Instagram feed - pretty but easily forgotten. Men said she was the perfect vessel for evil to enter the world, but men are the ones who wrote the stories.

Trista Mateer erupts with spells of thunder and then gifts you with a careful platter of language to cast them yourself. The long-awaited second instalment in Samantha Shannon's Sunday Times and New York Times-bestselling series Tunuva Melim is a sister of the Priory. Each section (obviously) has its own themes and tones, and speaks to the reader on a different level.It's extremely hard to give a book that talks about homosexuality, feminism and even SA/rape a low rating, but could you imagine how frustrating it is to expect these subjects to be talked about deeply or/and to have a heartbreaking imagery associated with it and to end up having just random thoughts thrown onto the paper, with a writing that neither is polished nor controlled ? I was a little horrified at an earlier review that said it came across as generic feminist poetry as I actually found this to be quite the opposite.

The million copy bestseller, A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara, is an immensely powerful and heartbreaking novel of brotherly love and. It feels awful saying that, because each experience is a different one and it's unfair to compare them, but if you put two modern poems by different poets side by side and asked me to correctly match them to their poets, there's a strong chance I'll be unsuccessful. Literature degree, but I’ve come to realise that I don’t hate poetry, it’s just a matter of finding the words that sing to you. Each of them feels personal, almost as if reading another's diary, and they often deal with difficult content in beautiful ways which make you leave feeling empowered and strong.

Couldn’t even bother trying to comprehend it all together—that I could be bloody and beautiful, that I could be divine and approachable.