I haven’t read a Poetry Novel in a long time. And to come across an ARC on NetGalley with a collection such as this I couldn’t resist. It truely was as the description details; deeply personal yet collective.

I’ve since ordered the physical book, to be able to highlight particular poets entries that I found particularly stunning and moving.

The collection of voices, writing styles and topics are extremely wide. As such, and to be expected, I did not love all the entries. And had a very hard getting into the rhythm and flow for the first 30% of this collection. After halfway however, I could not put this down, and ever so subtly started to lean closer towards four stars than three on average.