Milk and Honey

Rupi Kaur's poems are short, plain on the page and arranged so that injury and recovery sit within a few leaves of each other. Milk and Honey moves through four named sections: the hurting, then the loving, then the breaking, then the healing, each turning a different face of experience toward the reader. Love, violence, loss, family and femininity run through the collection, accompanied by the poet's own line drawings. The spareness of the language is deliberate, and it is part of why the book reached so many people who do not usually buy poetry. Reading notes: • Four sequenced sections tracing injury through to repair • Line drawings by the poet set alongside the text • Direct, unadorned language carrying subject matter of real weight • The debut collection that brought Kaur an international readership For readers of contemporary poetry, and a considered gift for anyone working through heartbreak or change. Published by Andrews McMeel Publishing and available from Boipoka.