Christina Sng

Short form poetry, as Christina Sng shows us in Astropoetry, can open up the vastness of the universe to its readers. The poems in this collection give us glimpses of planets, asteroids, stars, and other celestial bodies while asking us to question what we see. Some of the poems are meditations on what is, and others venture into the speculative, taking as their subjects travel to the outer planets' moons, Dyson spheres, and encounters with extraterrestrial beings. Readers who appreciate the show more wonders beyond our world and the sense of wonder science fiction can evoke will enjoy this collection. show less

Overall I really enjoyed this and will definitely be looking into this author in the future. The book is separated into parts and I liked all of them, some more than others.
A few of the sections I felt didn't really fit in with the other parts of the book and while they were good it also made my brain go huh?
The childhood tales poems were a bit too small for my liking although the goldilocks poem I literally laughed out loud out of shock and told my mother about it lol.
The title of this show more collection goes very nicely with the poetry inside of it.

Thanks to netgalley for the ARC show less

On the whole the poetry itself is great, really artfully done. This is a very intense read, rage and agony.
Part of the reason I rated it 3 instead of 4 stars is that it gets quite repetitive, the same themes explored in every iteration possible. It became difficult to get through as a reader.

Thank you to Christina Sng, Interstellar Flight Press, and Netgalley for an advanced reader copy (ARC) of "The Gravity of Existence: Poems" in exchange for an honest review.

When the acknowledgments head tipped to a life that taught the artist the brevity was the best way to say anything, taught so by her father, she had not put it amiss. Another in the long, modern fascination with bite-size confessional poetry, Sng finds herself as one of the shortest and most concise in words choice more show more often through out her pages.

I did love a handful of them, but there were a good others that didn't hit me much. show less