ପ Venus in Couture ଓ

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...

I have recently read some books that I really loved. I used to find it difficult to read books that didn't involve romance or completely made up/unrealistic scenarios because I thought these were the only books that offered escapism but I realised in the past couple of years that that is not true. I now find it hard to read romance at all because I just don't care for it if it isn't happening to me! I feel as though my taste in books has evolved and matured as I have entered adulthood and I can only describe these books as hot girl books (or hot depressed girl books? I don't know, it seems to be a running theme, but they are hot girls nonetheless.) I believe my gateway into this made-up book genre was two years ago when I began reading The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides, which is now one of my absolute favourite books. My mum recommended that I read it and since then I have been taking a lot of her recommendations and also sharing books that I have read and loved...