Jon's Reviews > Thaw

Highly repetitive, both in terms of the subject matter of the poems (car crash, dead child, abusive men), the voice (relentless first person) and even word choice (slits, Winter, leaves). They didn't have the feel of well managed repetitions, or repetitions with variation that you'd expect in a themed collection like this. It just felt samey all the way through, which was particularly unfortunate as the tone of the poems is rather uninspired and linguistically unthrilling.

All that sounds a bit harsh, the individual poems are perfectly competent 3 star poems. But as a collection this was a low 2 stars. Wouldn't recommend.