{"id":363,"date":"2018-05-07T23:26:08","date_gmt":"2018-05-07T23:26:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.writehanded.org\/poetry\/?p=363"},"modified":"2018-05-07T23:26:08","modified_gmt":"2018-05-07T23:26:08","slug":"poetry-review-floods-another-chamber","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writehanded.org\/poetry\/2018\/05\/07\/poetry-review-floods-another-chamber\/","title":{"rendered":"Poetry review &#8211; Floods Another Chamber"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>My latest review for Booksellers New Zealand &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/booksellersnz.wordpress.com\/2018\/05\/08\/book-review-floods-another-chamber-by-james-brown\/\">James Brown&#8217;s <i>Floods Another Chamber<\/i><\/a>. It was a book I enjoyed technically if not emotionally.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!--more-->This is Brown&#8217;s sixth collection. I&#8217;ve enjoyed his work before, but this took me until about the third read-through to really start engaging.<\/p>\n<p>I tend to look for myself in poetry, and when I can\u2019t relate, I move on. A lot of this work explores Brown\u2019s own experiences, which isn\u2019t a bad thing. It\u2019s just that as a young (ish), non-athletic (I don\u2019t think I\u2019ve gotten on a bicycle since 2002) woman, I didn\u2019t immediately find a way in. That probably makes me egocentric, an argument furthered by the fact that several of the standout moments for me were in pieces where Brown examines poems, the poet, and the nature of poetry. Here, I was happy to find myself.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/booksellersnz.wordpress.com\/2018\/05\/08\/book-review-floods-another-chamber-by-james-brown\/\">Read the Review<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-364\" src=\"http:\/\/writehanded.org\/poetry\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/05\/JamesBrown-237x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"237\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/writehanded.org\/poetry\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/05\/JamesBrown-237x300.png 237w, https:\/\/writehanded.org\/poetry\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/05\/JamesBrown-768x970.png 768w, https:\/\/writehanded.org\/poetry\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/05\/JamesBrown-810x1024.png 810w, https:\/\/writehanded.org\/poetry\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/05\/JamesBrown.png 1013w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 237px) 100vw, 237px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My latest review for Booksellers New Zealand &#8211; James Brown&#8217;s Floods Another Chamber. It was a book I enjoyed technically if not emotionally.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":364,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/writehanded.org\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/writehanded.org\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/writehanded.org\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writehanded.org\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writehanded.org\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=363"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/writehanded.org\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writehanded.org\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/writehanded.org\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writehanded.org\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writehanded.org\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}