This was an enjoyable read and I would recommend it. thanks for letting me have an advance copy. I'm new to this author.

It really saddens me to give any book just one star, but poetry even more so due to its personal nature. It is not that these were bad poems (especially considering it was shortlisted for the Costa Poetry Prize and Ted Hughes Award) but the poems here did not resonate with me like they should have.

The poems were of an extremely sexual nature that I was unprepared for and often found quite unsettling to read. These also weren't exactly of the style that I prefer in my poetry reading. In places, this collection had almost a stream-of-consciousness style to it which, whilst interesting, wasn't exactly what I would typically gravitate towards.

Whilst a thought-provoking read this was, unfortunately, not for me.

I really couldn't get into this style of writing unfortunately, it felt too long and more like it was trying to be prose.