And Suddenly You Find Yourself

by Natalie Ann Holborow

The poems in this collection explore what it means to be human: where the mythological meets the modern, where fairytales, family and revenge collide, and a haunting mix of love, loss, desire, fear and revenge that is unafraid to unsettle the reader.

This remarkable collection of work finds people at their most vulnerable: Achilles counting to ten outside a psychiatrist’s door, a man finding himself in the shrinking bedroom of his mid-life, a lost sister chain-smoking into the breeze or a TB victim hacking her rags of lung softly into a pillow. Each one unflinchingly reveals the truth about what it means to be real. The people in this book may surprise you, their lives may be startlingly varied, but Natalie ann Holborow’s poems are an engaging, unnerving and honest exploration of the human experience in all its beauty and rawness.

Genres: Poetry

56 pages, Paperback

Published July 1, 2017

Reviews

[Robert Zimmermann · Rating 5 out of 5]

I didn't know anything about And Suddenly You Find Yourself when started reading. Soon after, it became hard to put down. This collection grabbed me from the first few poems and didn't let go. And Suddenly You Find Yourself has made it onto my list of top books of the year already, and I know I'll be rereading it soon once I finish some more books off my TBR.

[Anna Sinn · Rating 4 out of 5]

When I started reading the collection, I felt it didn’t quite live up to my expectations, but half way through I began to lose myself in the poems and the myriad of characters, stories and lives explored. By the end of the book I was blown away! Melancholy, honest, raw, but still a sense of hope throughout.

[Tôpher Mills · Rating 5 out of 5]

From the fascinating real to the wondrously imaginative, this first collection is scintillating. Holborow is a poet of enormous talent.

[Lisa · Rating 4 out of 5]

Third poetry book I bought myself and I’m obsessed with her writing! The words stay with you so much, hauntingly beautiful