Danklands

by Holly Childs

Danklands. The hottest day of summer. Two swans kissing on a hill. A $4,000,000 luxury boat on fire. A stolen Maserati. Thigh-high wading through a swamp that's not on maps. An electromagnetic frequency shield worn as a belly button ring. A three-and-a-half-month-long power nap.

100 pages, Paperback

First published December 1, 2014

Reviews

[Maxy.kai · Rating 4 out of 5]

um.wow.

[Krys]

Danklands is language pre-loaded as a computer glitch. It's post-Internet beat poetry that crunches banal YouTube tutorials and dank memes into a fragmented logic. While reading it, I was reminded of a different Holly (Herndon) and the digital disorder she transforms into music. I think this book opens a window of possibility and invites us to hear what could potentially become a new strain of music, but the thing is that we've mostly heard it before by now. Although it did prompt me to listen to Kelela x Kingdom again.

[Avery Marley · Rating 5 out of 5]

Danklands by Holly Childs reads like a fluid, atmospheric meditation rather than a traditional novella. Blending poetry and prose, the text mirrors the artificial, uncanny character of Melbourne’s Docklands, where surfaces, spaces, and identities feel unstable. Childs’ language is sharp yet deliberately disorienting, prioritizing rhythm and texture over narrative clarity. The result is an unsettling, intelligent work that rewards slow, attentive reading and captures a distinctly contemporary sense of dislocation.

[Alison Rowe]

i felt this book was disjointed and had no point, maybe that was its aim but it irritated me. Yet, there was great focus on an execution by beheading which was dusturbing and made me feel sick. It ruined the effect through glorifying and glamorising almost with a hint of grooming appealing to youths by its sick attention to this thirst for everything.
To be honest, just a collection of underground words to appear knowlwdgeable and present. Didnt do it for me, boring! sorry

[Victoria Anne Reis · Rating 5 out of 5]

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sometimes u come to a part of this book and you feel like you are in side of a slo mo gopro inside of a fog basin made of digi mirrors
or maybe just i feel this way? the zoom in and the zoom out of the author's head really 'gets me'
i am writing this revuew 'in the style of DANKLANDS'
as an homage to holly chi;ds and her brave voice
if u like feminist post internet fiction that blurs lots of edges i think u mite like this one
danklands is the southland tales of books and it is also a meme and it is also v lyric, moody
a good book to read on your commuter train/ subway ride, it is easy to enjoy in small doeses and will color your day w moody hues
just do it! read it and let it linger in u, i bet you will be better off 4 it

[Antti Grundstén · Rating 5 out of 5]

o wow