My hope with any piece of writing is that will touch someone else, help, or lift or encourage them in some way. getting reviews like this is, quite simply, what keeps me creating and feeling there is a point to what I do.
CM Rosens is a fantastic author who writes about monstrosity in a way that I find deeply resonant. There is comfort in not being the only monster, in knowing there are others who are also too much and too difficult and whose scales, teeth and claws are not socially acceptable. So, here is a review of How To Unpeel a Monster, and a recommendation to hop over and look at the blog as a whole, there’s wonderful stuff there.
How to Unpeel a Monster
How to Unpeel a Monster by Nimue Brown
My rating: 5 of 5 stars
A brilliant anthology that deeply resonates with me. I just got this and spent yesterday curled up crying with it for a while because some of the poems here really connected and expressed things I have been trying to get at within myself, and isn’t that what poetry and art is for?
Nimue Brown has a strong, relatable voice with a lot to say that’s worth saying. The anthology goes through facets of life and personality, covering mental health, politics, community, spirituality, relationships and the essence of interpersonal connection, ageing and more. I think this is one I’ll be returning to a lot.
Take off a skin. Take down a defence.
Take a risk, trust a little.
Soften that hard, uncompromising hide.
Take off the skin that…
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I’d like to buy your book but will try to avoid Amazon to do so
I don’t have hard copies of my own at the moment because I’ve got storage issues, but would cheerfully send you a pdf if that’s any help?
That’s very kind but I would actually like a hard copy and for you to get money from it — will try on other online outlets.
I didn’t put it anywhere else, sorry.
Ah, I guess I’ll have to buy it from Amazon then 🙂
sorry about that.
That’s okay — it sounds really good