Can You Sign My Tentacle?: Poems

SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2022 ELGIN AWARD

The cover and title were enough to entice me. This is an interesting collection of poems inspired by the Cthulhu mythos, re-contextualized, re-imagined and otherwise challenged in ways that should be of interest to any Lovecraft fan, but especially to those who like the question the racism that feels so inherent in his works. There's an interesting tonal variety here- some poems are dead serious, others feel almost whimsical. Not all poems worked for me but I quite enjoyed the concept.

Merged review:

SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2022 ELGIN AWARD

The cover and title were enough to entice me. This is an interesting collection of poems inspired by the Cthulhu mythos, re-contextualized, re-imagined and otherwise challenged in ways that should be of interest to any Lovecraft fan, but especially to those who like the question the racism that feels so inherent in his works. There's an interesting tonal variety here- some poems are dead serious, others feel almost whimsical. Not all poems worked for me but I quite enjoyed the concept.