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And appreciate it very much to have been given the opportunity to read this in exchange for an honest review English When I read that this book was about time personified I was really excited to read it However sadly it wasn t a hit for me There s nothing objectively wrong with the writing it s just not for me. Kindle wish lists on my account Thanks to NetGalley and publishers for letting me read this book in exchange for an honest review English When I read that this book was about time personified I was really excited to read it Where time slips between multiple rather surreal accounts of modern living It just as time is an imaginary construct.

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A paradox just as evident as absence itself It is of escapism than reality and of a prose s quote kind of poetry Sadly it didn t connect with me or I don t get the feeling of connection with these poetry There s nothing objectively wrong with the writing it s just maybe I am in a enthusiastic mood and this book doesn t build enough tempo to hit my chord of melancholy English ARC given by NetGalley for Honest ReviewWHISH imagines time personified in an eclectic collection of poetry and prose I was somewhat intrigued by the concept but felt the execution was lackluster My issue is that it felt drawn out halfway through the collection Nevertheless.

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Jackie Craven writes poetry and prose steeped in magical realism She s the author of WHISH winner of the Press 53 Award for Poetry Other books include SECRET FORMULAS TECHNIQUES OF THE MASTERS Brick Road Poetry Press and two chapbooks CYBORG SISTER Headmistress Press and OUR LIVES BECAME UNMANAGEABLE winner of the Omnidawn award for fabulist fiction Her poems appear in literary journals such as AGNI Alaska Quarterly Review Beloit Poetry Review The Massachusetts Review New Ohio Review Nimrod Ploughshares Pleiades and Poet Lore As a journalist she s also published books on home d cor and articles on architecture visual art literature and cultural travel Follow or Friend her on Facebook at WriterJackieCraven or sign up for her Distant Dwellings newsletter on Substack PRESS 53 AWARD FOR POETRY WHISH The title suggests speed and longing Alternating between surreal prose blocks and lyric verse Jackie Craven imagines hours minutes and seconds as quirky human characters secretaries bookkeepers and an array of scoundrels Noon stalls in the center of Erie Boulevard 5 15 paces hospital corridors and a wistful narrator speeds along a quantum highway where memory and loss plume into stained glass light Poems in WHISH are adapted from work that originally appeared in AGNI PLOUGHSHARES NEW OHIO REVIEW and other journals WHISH Poemswhere time slips between multiple rather surreal accounts of modern living just as time is an imaginary construct this collection establishes it s uncertainty further into a work of something akin to an equally irregular narrative where absence presents the concept of time a paradox just as evident as absence itself i definitely enjoyed reading this collection this collection establishes it s uncertainty further into a work of something akin to an equally irregular narrative Where absence presents the concept of time Craven s writing is lush and emotional touching on topics such as grief and human connection While this book is not my favorite it s well written and well executed. Wishful hair My favorite poems are Doesn t Love Have an Expiration Date Pi Huddles In A Cloakroom and My Misery Sleeps Through Sunrise English