Some of the poems here are genuinely life changing and others are seemingly meaningless lists of pretty-sounding words (I'm sure they aren't meaningless in intent, but they're too opaque for me as a reader to get much out of). Some poems here are 6 stars - 7 stars, 8 stars, 200 stars - and others are 2.

An example of a poem that actually made me feel physically uncomfortable in the best of ways:

Believe Women

Does my protection end when I stop being exactly like you? Are the only two options pretender and predator?

How much can I transform my body into a place I can come home to before it becomes a dangerous thing? To be believed

I will lie to your smiling face.

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Because yes. The whole 'believe women' movement is necessary and important but it absolutely comes at the expense of non-binary and trans people. Believe women all too often means believe cis women. Cis women suffer at the hands of cis men, and that's all. But that's reductive at best, and incredibly harmful erasure at worst. This poem made me realise it. I'm privileged enough to be able not to notice it until I'm told, and I'm thankful that I have been told.

I won't quote the poems I liked less, because this collection is absolutely necessary reading and I'd like to return to it some day and see if I can crack open the more obscure poems. Really recommend this one overall.