The wonderful writer of ‘Femme’ has offered her take on ‘Before The Words Run Out’. I’m ridiculously grateful to her for such a lovely review and would highly recommend that everyone and anyone pops over to check out her site!
Before The Words Run Out
by Carol J. Forrester
Poetry is unattainable abstract art for me; something that I personally struggle to create. There are poems I read and can identify with immediately, there are those I struggle to comprehend and then others that make me ponder for an extended period of time. The latter are the best. They’re the ones that keep on giving.
Carol’s collection in Before The Words Run Out is a generous one. The pages are full of her words and weighty ideology. It took me quite some time to get through this book because there were some poems that required me to sit back and think.
I have favourites of course – within a collection there are almost always favourites. I liked the poignant ‘Smile’ where the message is clear and the imagery stark and vivid. I loved ‘Persephone’ – a beautiful retelling of a…
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