I’m no means an expert in poetry, but I had a hard time enjoying this book because for a lot of the poems, some of the line breaks seem abrupt or jarring, disrupting the poem’s cadence - and this strategy is repeated for a lot of poems. Some of the poems truly have beautiful and evocative imagery.

However, I also found many to be melancholic in nature and hard to connect to, although perhaps the book’s title An Anthology of Rain should have been a giveaway. It could be just me as I enjoy the rain and see it more as a symbol of hope, but this wasn’t my cup of tea.

Thank you to Barrow Street Press and NetGalley for providing an eARC for review.