There are so many different types of poetry and it’s interesting (and heart-breaking) to read something as raw as Kaur’s Milk and Honey.
Poetry can be/look/sound anything that you want it to be and modern poets have done exactly that.” And anyway, what is the definition of poetry? It doesn’t have to rhyme or look a certain way or talk about a certain subject. Try and see how easy it is to put your deepest and darkest secrets down onto paper and turn them into fluid yet snappy poetry that people across the world can relate to.
I will repeat what I said in my review for TPSHITO: “I have heard (and read) a lot of debate surrounding this type of poetry, with people calling it ‘Tumblr spacing’ and saying that anyone could do it and get published. Like The Princess saves Herself in this One, Kaur’s work has also been slated for just being ‘Tumblr spacing’. There are some poems about sexual abuse though so if you are triggered by such topics, then be careful if you want to read this collection. Even though they were quite graphic, you could definitely hear the message that Rupi Kaur was portraying through them. It’s pretty much the whole of the first chapter that is sexual with a couple more poems of that nature scattered throughout. And because of that aspect, I do reccommend that this poetry collection is for mature readers only. It was one of the very first things that I noticed when I started reading it. milk and honey takes readers through a journey of the most bitter moments in life and finds sweetness in them because there is sweetness everywhere if you are just willing to look. It is split into four chapters, and each chapter serves a different purpose, deals with a different pain, heals a different heartache. It is about the experience of violence, abuse, love, loss, and femininity. Milk and honey is a collection of poetry and prose about survival. I was on a modern poetry hype and was looking forward to FINALLY getting round to Rupi Kaur’s debut poetry collection. Straight after I had finished The Princess Saves Herself in this One by Amanda Lovelace, I went onto read Milk and Honey.
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