Craig

Writing
like this do-
es not make a sentence
poetry.

This collection is, at best, a gateway into poetry for those who were bored by the medium in school. For me, it is a series of Tumblr or Instagram type motivational quotations - very shallow, “I'm 14 and this is deep” type guff. I can accept that there will be a target audience that will, and has, lapped this up - it's just not for me.

However, it has earned its star for the genuinely horrible image of a woman ‘being gutted' like ‘he's scraping the inside of a cantaloupe clean.'

Here's my attempt at a Rupi Kaur style poem:

When he
leaves
I cry because
I loved him

Shite.