The Last Day of the Month Book Club discussion

Starting off at the deep end, how did this collection make you feel? Did you enjoy or loath reading it, and why?

I had in my head going into it a collection of love poetry. I did not expect happiness throughout but I also did not expect the continuous darkness either. the love/obsession of the poems found inside is not a love that I know, which I think made it hard to enjoy and relate to.

Yes I agree with Becks. This was not the joyous celebration of love that it might have been. It was also quite a narrow definition of love, though I suppose I could have guessed this might be the case from the title. It took me quite a while to read as I found I really had to stop and think about what was being said and meant.
I didn't dislike the poems because the language was melodic but I didnt necessarily agree with them or find they spoke to me.

I really had to persevere with this book, I didn't particularly enjoy reading it. I agree, I was also expecting a more upbeat celebration of love and didn't really identify with the feelings expressed in most of the poems.