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Review: Disconnected by Courtney Peppernell; Tyler Knott Gregson; Noah Milligan; Caitlyn Siehl; Raquel Franco; Wilder; Alicia Cook; Komal Kapoor; KY Robinson; NL Shompole.

This highly-anticipated second volume of poetry and short stories combines the forces of some of the most popular poets of 2019.

I love this series of books. How one writer can create an idea, and then another to come along read that idea and make something new from it makes for somerthing great and this book is certainly proof, straight from the beginning of the book. ‘Strangers Tomorrow’ by NL Shompole, will break your heart. Inspired by the work of Gregson before her in this book this story takes science fiction into how to deal with grief exquisitely and makes for a marvel in this book. 

In combination with these stories, we have poems that connect the stories, taking lines from the poem to create the story. Poems by Noah Milligan like ‘Ghost Stories’ in this book are harrowing but important and make for perfect stops in between these stories. Jumping from ‘Ghost Stories’ we have ‘Ghosted’ which is the most honest and raw and tragic love story that just ends so well and I love it for it and thougn the two are so very different the way they use words to connect the two is done so well.

A book I asked for due to my love of the work of Tyler Knott Gregson, this book has opened my eyes to a whole new range of talented poets who I need to go and look up as soon as possible. If you love poems and like having your heartbroken in a literary sense, this is the book for you. Even the recommendations at the end of the book - Jade Homa’s ‘Athena’ at the back is a little treasure that ends this book beautifully. 

(I received an ARC from Netgalley for review, thanks Netgalley, you did good!). 

[trashy-greyjoy]

Anyway, I highly, highly recommend everyone read Lace Bone Beast by N.L. Shompole. It’s a really short poetry collection and oh my god its so amazing. I haven't seen anyone talk about it at all on tumblr and they should.

‘Milk and Honey’, and ‘the princess saves herself in this one’ get most of the attention she it comes to poetry, but this collection really is wonderful and more people need to read it. NOW!

[kingdomsinthewild]

Love the body for it has housed you through the collapse, and the catastrophe.

Lace Bone Beast, N.L. Shompole

[eggsaladstain]

The softness in your bones is not / has not / will never be weakness The tears that burn to the surface in the face of grief or affront are not / will never be signs of a faint heart It's only right that some days you will be more storm than sky more rage than softness more fury than forgiveness & That's alright, that is alright

forgive the softness in your bones

N. L. Shompole, Lace Bone Beast

[vagabondcitylit]

I take flight at dusk, pink and indigo sky stretching each way into infinity.  Blue wind over my skin I think of how the world came to be.  In a dream last night I was a hummingbird in migration. A sudden storm and I was in descent, torn from the sky.

VENUS FADING FROM THE SKY  | N. L. Shompole

[trashy-greyjoy]

Love, soften the  rebellion in my bones.

n.l. shompole  “conversations with the reviver”, Lace Bone Beast

[trashy-greyjoy]

Be all of it, a dichotomy, raining and sunning all at once. A hyena's wedding mid-march, a conundrum of tears and laughter in April. Be, be all of it, warrior with a wildflower heart, and a spine like steel, sharpen your teeth, but don't forget the dreamer just because the world called you to war. Dream, dream, dream all the dreams.

n.l. shompole “lightning, wildflowers, & other fairytales for wicked girls”, Lace Bone Beast

[kingdomsinthewild]

Love the body for it has housed you through the collapse, and the catastrophe.

Lace Bone Beast, N.L. Shompole

[kingdomsinthewild]

While pointing at the moon you said: I am an ocean full of storms, you are my salvation. Do not let the darkness swallow me.

Shompole NL: Anatomy of the Moon (2014) published in: Kingdoms in the Wild 

[kingdomsinthewild]

Cheers to each and every one of us, to the wide eyed dreamers, to the nomads & wanderers, to those with the courage to stay, or leave. Cheers to those who hunger for the sky, for home, for things yet unnamed. Cheers to those with the courage to fail, and fail again. Cheers to those who walk alongside us on our journeys, whether far, or near. Cheers to a fantastic 2018. & If nothing else, I wish you the courage to reach for the sky this year.

NL Shompole Founder & Creative Director  Kingdoms in the Wild