Review of The Collective Nouns for Birds

 

A great review for my collection over on The Lake today, courtesy of the brilliant Hannah Stone. Here's an excerpt:

"Here is a narrative voice moving not just from one location to another but from the aspirations and romantic imaginings of adolescence to the disillusionment of adult life. The enthusiasm of youth is portrayed with a kindly retrospective, with vivid imagery capturing the period and place. Teenage girls playing the fruit machines at a North Yorkshire coastal resort are ‘two stranded mermaids/killing time’ (‘Out Chasing Boys’), or ‘Two homespun girls turned restless moths’ who ‘know for one brief moment of teenage clarity,/that life will be good and worth the wait.’ (‘The New Knowing’). They wore ’patched-up pale-sky jeans/embroidered with all our rockstar dreams.’ (‘Dizzy with it’)."

You can read the full review here

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