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| This weeks books - the book I was supposed to finish, the book I actually finished and my newest book |
This
week I started Tom-All-Alone’s by Lynn Shepherd, and it is really good, but I
haven’t finished it because of Les Misérables. Last Sunday I went to see Les
Mis and I haven’t been able to stop singing and thinking about it long enough
to finish Tom-All-Alone’s. Instead I took the cheat’s route and finished a book
of poetry that I’ve had for ages (since last Christmas at least): The Bees by
Carol Ann Duffy.
As with
all Duffy’s poetry, there is a strong feminist tone to the poems in this collection, which is something I always
enjoy, and a lot of the poems are about women – her mother, her
daughter, the woman in the moon. Unsurprisingly there are also a lot of bees in
this collection, sometimes at the centre of the poem other times they just a
minor detail. The blurb tells me that this is because: “the bee symbolises what
we have left of grace in the world, and what is most precious and necessary to
protect.” This reminded me of that quote about how we are all stuffed once the
bees start disappearing (which they are) and there is definitely a strong environmental
message in this collection as well. I don’t know how to talk about poetry
without turning it into an essay so I will stop here.
In a
nutshell : Poetry is good and this collection has a very pretty cover.
Next
week: Probably Tom-All-Alone’s.
I have not much to say about Carol Anne Duffy cause eeeek poems, BUT I am way interested in Delusions of Gender! *hint hint nudge nudge borrowy borrow*
ReplyDeleteI hear ya on Les Mis though. I was SO into Ready Player One for like 2 days and then I saw Les Mis and was like 'ugh, I have to finish this book that isn't set in France and doesn't involve singing? WHUT?!' Sad times.