Title: Underworld Author: Melissa Jennings
Pages: 122 pages
Version: Ebook (ARC)
Release date: 10 October 2018
Rating: ★★★★
Review
This book was provided by the author in exchange for an honest review. Thank you Melissa Jennings!
but what I did learn is that you never know who people really are.
I never wanted to find x, I wanted to find why.
I wanted to know why I was never good enough for people.
Underworld is a poetry collection about mental health, identity and the unspoken. This poetry collection has poems about anxiety, depression, difficult parental relationships, self-harm, dissociation, suicide, …
I end every night
tears tearing me open,
sewing me back together.
Underworld is the first poetry collection I read written by Melissa Jennings and I really liked. The poems were so beautiful and you can definitely tell that Melissa put their heart into this collection. I also really like that they made a content warning page because I’ve never read such a page before and I think it’s really helpful for people who don’t like to read about a certain topic.
I felt like a hostage in my own body,
depression gagging me with tears,
and anxiety dragging me across my floor
I cannot wait to read more of Melissa’s work and here are my favourite poems:
- Around We Go
- How to Find x + y
- Hear Me
- We Suck at Goodbyes
- This House is Not a Home
- Lethal
- The Thorns of the Heart
- I Couldn’t Heart the Train Coming
- Hades
- Every Day is Father’s Day Because You Weren’t There
- Cops and Robbers
- Different Kinds of Light
- Do You Still Burn?
- This Sun Will Never Rise Again
- A Rare Love Poem From Hell
- I Will Drive My Own Hearse