Acclaimed Instagram poet F.D. Soul (@featherdownsoul) debuts a new poetry collection, telling her own invigorating, unapologetic narrative of love, loss, and adversity. Soul's words pulse, they are alive on the page, attesting to the significance of Between You and These Bones in the modern world.
From celebrated New Zealand poetess F.D. Soul comes her highly anticipated second collection of poetry, prose, illustrations, and wisdom. Her messages grapple with relationships: interpersonal relationships, her relationship with herself, and the relationship between poetry and the world. Unchaptered and raw, Between You and These Bones reads much like a memoir or meditation yet maintains all the musicality of poetry. "This book is a garden, a hymn, a forgiveness. A falling back in love. It is all the pieces of light you forgot you held, remembered."
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[Here. / I do not want you to read this / hard and heavy-handed. POETRY FOR THE NON-BELIEVER]***
(Andrews McMeel Publishing, 14 May 2019, 192 pages, ebook, copy from @AndrewsMcMeel via #Ne https://www.netgalley.co.uk/catalog/book/162734 tGalley and voluntarily reviewed)
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I really enjoyed this collection of poems. Soul writes about subjects close to my heart, close to the hearts of many including falling in and out of love, relationships, both the good and not so good parts and self-image. I'd never read Soul's work before and was very impressed. The poems spoke to me. I enjoyed every line. I need to read more of her work. The poems in this collection are easy to read and accessible, no poetry snobbery here.
