Honeybee

Reading Mateer’s poems feels like coming home.

It wasn’t until I was half way down the rabbit hole of her incredible heart-break, that I realised the poems where in chronological order and when that hit me, it made the whole premise so much sadder. This encouraged me to connect and relate to the poems more.

For anyone who has had to leave someone that they love or been pushed aside, these poems perfectly quantify and describe those feelings that so often cannot be put into words.

I personally love confessional poetry, whenever I write, it always seems to be in a confessional tone and there is always something special and raw in free verse confessional poetry. There are always certain lines that strike you with blistering honesty and bring your own feelings into clarity.

In a world when poetry is often ridiculed and ignored, I admire poets like Mateer, who has made poetry “cool” again. She reminds me of Amanda Lovelace, Lang Leav and Rupi Kaur. I look forward to reading more of her work.

I’ll be honest, I’m not really the biggest fan of poetry, I’ve just never been able to fully connect with it and understand it the way so many others do. This collection of poems was really beautiful though, the general theme is heartbreak and loneliness after the end of a love affair, something that many of us can relate to, each poem is brisk and lovely, I actually really enjoyed reading them. Also, big props for the cover art that is very reminiscent of Sarah Paulson as Lana Winters.

This book was absolutely beautiful. A book of poetry about heartbreak and love from a bisexual woman who couldn't let go. Or took a long time to let go. She moved away, stopped talking to her and still couldn't keep the poems from flowing. They were all wonderful and I loved it.