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Various Authors – Poems for a World Gone to Shit | Review

Title: Poems for a World Gone to Shit

Author: Various Authors

Type: Poetry

Page Count/Review Word Count: 144

Rating: 3.5*/5

Various Authors – Poems for a World Gone to Shit

Disclaimer: While I aim to be unbiased, I received a copy of this for free.

I was super excited to get stuck into this collection based upon its title alone. And to be fair to it, I did think it was okay, and it was a reasonable collection of both classical and contemporary poetry. I guess the main problem that I had is that it’s basically the same set of poems that I’ve seen in other collections like Deborah Alma’s Emergency Poet books. There was also a lot of blank space.

Overall, it was fine, but I think the best thing about it is its title. It would make a good novelty gift, I guess.

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Deborah Alma – The Emergency Poet: An Anti-Stress Poetry Anthology | Review

Title: The Emergency Poet: An Anti-Stress Poetry Anthology

Author: Deborah Alma

Type: Poetry

Page Count/Review Word Count: 194

Rating: 4*/5

Deborah Alma – The Emergency Poet: An Anti-Stress Poetry Anthology

I’ve already read one of these mini collections of poetry from Deborah Alma, the emergency poet, and so I kind of knew what I was in for. Alma does a great job of pulling together a huge variety of both classic and contemporary poetry and the result is this stunning little hardback collection that’s so aesthetically pleasing you won’t want to put it down.

I also like how Alma includes some further recommended reading at the end, as well as the fact that one of the poems she recommended was by Charles Bukowski. But I also found a bunch of classic poems that I now want to memorise, including one that it turns out my granddad also knows – and he’s a working class dude from a small town. I can’t vouch for whether these poems actually help you to beat stress, but I will say that I enjoyed reading it and would read more in this series if and when they came out. So yeah!