Kit

I have absolutely no objection to literary minimalism, but be warned, as you've probably copped from this lot already, it does take fairly masterful twists of phrase to be as ...

You know what's the fun part about writing about a supposedly controversial issue? People start ripping into one another for the substance and ignore the style. God knows I've had ...

You have a brain, and I'm not into handing out attagirls, so I'm not going to go easy on you, newbie. You have some decent ideas in here, but it ...

I the only one who got that this was blatant proselytizing? As a musician (thus familiar with Requiems) and a Christian (thus familiar with the Revelations) I'm incensed. This is ...

If I were to edit this, first I would require a blowtorch, because you have An Interesting And Post Modern Structural Idea, but at the moment it's coming out like ...

Nujood Ali, of Ethiopia, was married off when she was nine years old. He husband beat and raped her. She went to her parents who wouldn't shelter her. She eventually ...

The impact of a poem is lessened if you take your structure from Doctor Seuss. That is not to say the binary rhyming pattern is dead by no means, couplets ...

I want this to be more immediate. Death is, Love is, Hope is. Repetition just makes it more inane. Defining an abstract concept like this has been done to, well, ...

You have to ask yourself what is the purpose of this poem? If you want to change people's minds, this work fails on a fundamental level. People who agree with ...

This shows just about nothing of your writing style, so I won't go into depth, only to say there was this Valentines day where someone had put a notice in ...

So my colleagues say unsettling, they say vague. Because poems, they are meant to be concrete things, they're meant to have an opaque enjoyable exterior, followed by some easily discernible ...

OKAY, so I only have a third of the crit, because the silly site ate it and I'm sick of typing it again, and it's midnight, and I have had ...

If Sylvia Plath wrote AD Hope's "Australia" and then Woody Allen filmed it, it would be this. Very stream of consciousness, very self conscious, very scattered. There are moments of ...

Wow, your poetry of late has reached this whole other level, and that frightens me just a little. I mean, wow. This one I don't like so much as others, ...

Poignant portrait of Madonna and Child, and I do like the intermingling of the experiment and the emotional. I liked the wire roots, and the relationship between the two is ...