This collection is named after the age Makenzie Campbell was when writing the book. But I’ll try my hardest to highlight parts I think need discussing.įirstly, the title. But I have always found it hard to rate poetry it has so many different parts and is so personal. This is the first collection of Campbell’s I’ve read, and I’m still fresh to reading poetry since I only started seeking it out mid last year. Nineteen is a collection of poetry which deals with love, heartbreak and personal contemporary issues. Many thanks to NetGalley for the opportunity to read this ARC in exchange for a honest review. Thank you to Central Avenue Publishing for this ARC I would still recommend this if you don't have some of the same problems I do- as it was objectively well done. For context, this book is almost 200 pages with the majority of poems being on one page each. I think it is quite telling that I only highlighted 5. I find it difficult to rate poetry, so I tend to go by how many poems I highlighted, that stood out to me. Again, I want to reiterate that poetry is a subjective thing, and if you find some hidden meaning in those words or it resonates with you- Im happy for you! To me though, they seem quite surface level and lazy. Just because you click the enter button a couple of times does not turn a sentence into poetry. Here are some examples of short ones that didn't connect with me. A strange combination I know, but that sums up my feelings for most of 'Nineteen'Īdditionally, I tend to like longer poems as opposed to shorter. To me, this poem feels melodramatic, but lacking emotion. That maybe this time we could be the perfect pairīut then you open my message and don’t reply and leave me just wondering why… “You fool me each and every time into thinking you care You’ll look back at old pictures and swear that was just yesterday and then realise that yesterday was ten years ago."īut one I didn’t, focused on heartbreak was: “Soon enough you’ll be thirty and wondering how the hell you got from here to there. Instead, those focused on families, nostalgia, regrets, change and life lessons seem to be my favourite.įor example, the beginning of a poem from this collection that I loved with nostalgia as a main theme:
As a general rule that I don’t find poems centred around love, heartache or betrayal to hit the hardest. I have found that for me to enjoy poetry, it needs to have grit and depth. I am beginning to discover what works for me and what doesn't in modern poetry. (ironically heavily featuring some of things I say later in this review I don't like, primarily being narrated by the goddess of love herself.) My favourite of which so far being ‘Aphrodite Made Me Do It’ by Trista Mateer. I want to preface this by saying that poetry is subjective and personal, which is part of the reason why I love it so much! Unfortunately, that makes it harder to find works I love- but when I do, it is like finding a diamond in the rough and very satisfying. Modern poetry gets a bad rep, and I don’t want to be that person who reads it for the sake of hating and bashing it- condensing a whole genre into a single one star review. My main problem was just that it didn’t evoke the emotion in me that is so critical for my enjoyment of poetry. Overall, the writing was done well, especially for such a young author.
Nineteen is a collection of poetry and prose written by Mackenzie Campbell, titled after the age at which she wrote it.
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