Welcome to Litsy!

Thanks so much @RachelO ! Lovely #bookmail to come home to. And I love the postcard too! Why is it suddenly so cold?! Was lovely and sunny in the Lakes!

My February #poetrychallenge2018 read, & one I'd been really looking forward to but didn't love.

Some of the more personal poems worked better for me - The Boundary Line, in memory of a friend who had passed, or The Good Neighbour, witnessing the decline of an addict.

Many of the poems relate to fascinating news stories, but they confused me! As snapshots, I wanted strong storytelling or emotion or language... I ended up Googling the stories.

I won't finish my #poetrychallenge2018 book for Feb on time, so here's the thing.

The poems? They're just not getting me. I feel nothing. It sounds like there might be an interesting story in there, but I'm not getting it. So I hit Google, find the story, and it's full-on AMAZING! Back to the poem, because maybe I feel differently now. Nope. Still nothing.

Source material=awesome (eg this is a global database of birdsong 💖); poems just ok.

I seem to be wanting to love this more than I'm actually loving it. Bother. 🐟

This is going to be my February read for #poetrychallenge2018.

So far it feels almost like short stories in poem form, and I've been introduced to Sunny Lowry, the first British woman to swim the channel - I can't find many of O'Riordan's poems online, but here's Sunny Lowry's story: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunny_Lowry

@Natasha.C.Barnes

Loved this collection. I don't always 'get' poems but felt like I got almost every single one. Loved the breadth and variety of his poems, the story telling within them and the sense of northern lilt throughout... just my cup of tea. I'll be rereading this often.