Christina Sng

The collection of over 80 poems is grouped into five sections: The Love Song of Allegra, Fairy Tales, All the Monsters in the World, The Capacity of Violence, and Myths and Dreamscapes. If you want more specific thoughts/insights into each section then go read the review on my blog at readingvicariously.net!!

Just know that this is an excellent collection of poetry, full of poems that are worth reading over and over. Needless to say the beautifully descriptive language and fervent imagination of the author make for wonderful stories. Their cruelty, brutality, and violence clearly put the collection as a whole in the category of “dark poetry,” but that’s not to say there aren’t also threads of grace, love, and redemption. And with such a variety of styles and genres (myth, fantasy, science fiction, crime thriller, and straight horror just to name a few) there’s something here for everyone to enjoy!

Favorite poems include “Always a Beast,” “Memoirs in the Dark,” “The Tooth Collector,” and “ Future World”

Thanks to @rdspress for sending a copy to review, and to @christinasng for her wonderful poetry!… (mais)

Thank you to Christina Sng, Interstellar Flight Press, and Netgalley for an advanced reader copy (ARC) of "The Gravity of Existence: Poems" in exchange for an honest review.

When the acknowledgments head tipped to a life that taught the artist the brevity was the best way to say anything, taught so by her father, she had not put it amiss. Another in the long, modern fascination with bite-size confessional poetry, Sng finds herself as one of the shortest and most concise in words choice more often through out her pages.

I did love a handful of them, but there were a good others that didn't hit me much.… (mais)

Short form poetry, as Christina Sng shows us in Astropoetry, can open up the vastness of the universe to its readers. The poems in this collection give us glimpses of planets, asteroids, stars, and other celestial bodies while asking us to question what we see. Some of the poems are meditations on what is, and others venture into the speculative, taking as their subjects travel to the outer planets' moons, Dyson spheres, and encounters with extraterrestrial beings. Readers who appreciate the wonders beyond our world and the sense of wonder science fiction can evoke will enjoy this collection.… (mais)