No Good
Autor Sophie van Waardenbergen Limba Engleză Paperback – 14 aug 2025
for the geriatric guinea pig I changed the world.
I killed a weed. I filled a mouth with gold.
In this debut poetry collection, Sophie van Waardenberg considers girlhood and grief, love and its loss, distance and the return home, including at its heart a sequence of emotionally raw ‘Cremation Sonnets’. In its essence, this collection is the poet exploring ‘goodness’: ‘I am unbegrudging. I am the openest pair of arms’, she tells us. ‘I am a large dirty lake, a tepid naughty heart.’
I cannot accept this ending. I have fallen
from the highest ledge. I will never land.
So what if I am safe? I am not.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781776711789
ISBN-10: 1776711785
Pagini: 72
Dimensiuni: 160 x 210 x 6 mm
Greutate: 0.14 kg
Editura: Auckland University Press
Colecția Auckland University Press
Locul publicării:New Zealand
ISBN-10: 1776711785
Pagini: 72
Dimensiuni: 160 x 210 x 6 mm
Greutate: 0.14 kg
Editura: Auckland University Press
Colecția Auckland University Press
Locul publicării:New Zealand
Recenzii
No Good is a psychologically astute, honed, vividly rendered collection from a strong, engaging new writer. It is technically taut; it confronts rough emotional territory in its overt articulation of longing, dejection, sorrow, melancholy and loss. Yet despite all this, it often sparkles with warmth, an irrepressible sense of the whimsical and quirky, and with images as clear, unpretentious and startlingly fresh as lawn daisies.
Sophie van Waardenberg’s debut makes good on all the promise of her AUP New Poets 5 collection and appearances in New Zealand and US journals. No Good has the humour and heart-on-sleeve emotion displayed in her previously published work but makes use of the fuller scope of a book-length collection to take the reader into more complex and emotionally fraught territory. It is a book that can be both warm and (in the best sense) difficult, frequently within the same poem or sequence. The first full collection by van Waardenberg is something that has been highly anticipated by Aotearoa poetry fans for several years, and No Good is a triumphant blend of elegy and love poems, heartbreak and hope, journeys and homecomings.
Sophie van Waardenberg’s debut makes good on all the promise of her AUP New Poets 5 collection and appearances in New Zealand and US journals. No Good has the humour and heart-on-sleeve emotion displayed in her previously published work but makes use of the fuller scope of a book-length collection to take the reader into more complex and emotionally fraught territory. It is a book that can be both warm and (in the best sense) difficult, frequently within the same poem or sequence. The first full collection by van Waardenberg is something that has been highly anticipated by Aotearoa poetry fans for several years, and No Good is a triumphant blend of elegy and love poems, heartbreak and hope, journeys and homecomings.