On Sun Swallowing by Dakota Warren - Book Review
On Sun Swallowing is Dakota Warren's debut collection of poems, prose and journal extracts that are seeped in hedonistic persuasion and a glorious lust for life (and death!). Touching on themes of girlhood, youth, femininity, existentialism, her relationship with religion and the gods, confessions of murder and blood spill, and letters to the devil himself. Dakota's words consumed me entirely. Her language, ingenuity and expression are beautiful. She has a way of connecting intimately with her readers and cult following, allowing them to escape reality for a moment. I am fairly new to poetry so perhaps I am slightly unqualified to be reviewing it but I feel Dakota Warren's work was the perfect gateway for me. We share a lot of the same interests in literature, art and culture, which she explores and references in her work. Before reading Warren's collection, my knowledge was limited to the collection of poems we studied at school which I found extremely unenjoyable; ma