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The Soap Crank and Other Selected Poems
'The Soap Crank and Other Selected Poems' is the debut poetry collection of the novelist, Avalina Kreska, author of 'The AdderStane' Shetland series. The AI artwork featured in this collection was made using the WOMBO Dream app and provides a colourful and unique dimension to the often quirky and thought provoking formulaic and freeform poetry prose.
107 pages, Paperback
Published August 2, 2022
About the author
Avalina Kreska
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My debut poetry collection:
The Soap Crank and Other Selected Poems
The paperback version features art created by the AI software by WOMBO Dream.
A mystical, supernatural and mysterious journey of souls set on the remote island of Fetlar in the Shetland Islands. Who are The Papar and why are they connected to Fetlar?
Kids Can Learn Guitar - The Eight Note Method Book 1
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These fun and quirky guitar teaching books in full colour are available from Amazon.
My debut poetry collection:
The Soap Crank and Other Selected Poems
The paperback version features art created by the AI software by WOMBO Dream.
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August 16, 2022
The 49 poems in this collection by Avalina Kreska use certain poetic forms (6 in total). A list of those poetic forms, each with an explanation as to what they are, is also included at the back of the book. It also mention that there are 168 poetic forms for poets - I didn’t know there were so many!
The cover is interesting, and the typography is clear and well laid-out throughout.
The titles of the poems are interesting and intriguing. In the printed version of the book, each poem has an accompanying full-colour illustration. These are surreal and unusual in their own right. The author explains that they were created using an AI program called Wombo Dream. They add so much atmosphere to the poems.
The poems themselves are, in turns, fascinating, strange, deep, philosophical and occasionally tongue-in cheek, each one demanding further readings of them, to uncover even more layers of understanding and emotional resonance.
All of them are so well written, with some marvellous lines. Here are just a few of those Iines from the poems that caught my eye: “Pour me another glass of beautiful forgetting”, “Trailing questions like balloons on strings”, “Seemingly polished like favoured ornaments”, “Winding mesh of ambient shadows”, “Men in a thousand clouds of humility”.
All in all, I love this book with its atmospheres and emotions created by the words. I can thoroughly recommend The Soap Crank And Other Selected Poems.
The cover is interesting, and the typography is clear and well laid-out throughout.
The titles of the poems are interesting and intriguing. In the printed version of the book, each poem has an accompanying full-colour illustration. These are surreal and unusual in their own right. The author explains that they were created using an AI program called Wombo Dream. They add so much atmosphere to the poems.
The poems themselves are, in turns, fascinating, strange, deep, philosophical and occasionally tongue-in cheek, each one demanding further readings of them, to uncover even more layers of understanding and emotional resonance.
All of them are so well written, with some marvellous lines. Here are just a few of those Iines from the poems that caught my eye: “Pour me another glass of beautiful forgetting”, “Trailing questions like balloons on strings”, “Seemingly polished like favoured ornaments”, “Winding mesh of ambient shadows”, “Men in a thousand clouds of humility”.
All in all, I love this book with its atmospheres and emotions created by the words. I can thoroughly recommend The Soap Crank And Other Selected Poems.
August 23, 2022
Nice bit of work, this, a slightly barmy blend of the evocative, sharply observed, cheeky, and obscure. There’s a lot of discipline on show with the set forms - far more than I’m capable of - and a bright thread of metaphysics running through the whole affair. Quite enjoyed the images, too, although the poems are more than strong enough to stand on their own two (sometimes three) feet.
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