Girls Are Coming Out of the Woods is Tishani Doshi's third book of poems, following two earlier, highly praised collections, Everything Belongs Elsewhere, published by Bloodaxe in 2012, and her debut, Countries of the Body, winner of the Forward Prize for best first collection. In Girls are Coming out of the Woods, Tishani Doshi combines artistic elegance with a visceral power to create a breath-taking panorama of danger, memory, beauty and the strange geographies of happiness.
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(@BloodaxeBooks, 24 May 2018, first published 25 September 2017, 96 pages, ebook, borrowed from @natpoetrylib via @OverDriveLibs)
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I'd never heard of the poet before but I love the title of the collection and I've heard good things about it so decided to give it a go. The title poem completely blew me away. The poems in this collection tackle and speak out against violence against women. Some of the poems have quite violent and disturbing undertones. Some of the poems have quite complex structures and these don't always gel so well. Still, the poems use powerful language and visuals. Many of the poems will stay with me for a long time.
