Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

Kaur in her infancy is still Kaur well worth a read

Milk and Honey by Rupi Kaur

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Maybe I shouldn’t have read Kaur’s first last. It’s not like it was an intentional choice, though. We already had her second book, having bought it forever ago, and her third book was the only other one I saw popping up at the Targets we frequent. For Milk and Honey, I had to travel 45 minutes to pick it up from a different Target that actually had it, after visiting another Target in that same city that was supposed to have it and didn’t. Could […]

“I am a museum of art but you had your eyes shut”

Milk and Honey by Rupi Kaur

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Official book description: milk and honey is a collection of poetry about love loss trauma abuse healing and femininity it is split into four chapters each chapter serves a different purpose deals with a different pain heals a different heartache milk and honey takes readers through a journey of the most bitter moments in the life and finds sweetness in them because there is sweetness everywhere if you are just willing to look Poetry is just one of those genres I don’t really read, at […]

Poetry for the non-fan

Milk and Honey by Rupi Kaur

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(Trigger warning: this review will mention rape several times, though not in any graphic or descriptive way.) This is my annual foray into poetry thanks to my local library’s adult summer reading bingo challenge. Poetry is not at all my bag. I read one book a year and that’s it. As a friend of mine is fond of saying: I’m not trying to yuk anyone’s yum. But my joy as a reader comes from diving into a good story that will leave me challenged and, […]

Mama’s real upset now.

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In the first country I lived in we had these small packets of liquorice called GaJol. They were my favourite, because I like liquorice, but also because on the back of each packet was a small joke, a word play or a fancy quote. Sometimes I would tear one off and keep them, but most of the time I just read them and threw them away, and the ones I kept would disappear as well –  into the cracks of furniture and pockets and books. […]

universal love and pain

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I’m not exactly sure how Rupi Kaur became such a publicly praised and well-known poet, but the first time I read anything of hers was just a snippet on Instagram – which incidentally is what brought on the backlash. How dare this millennial poet use a millennial mode of social interaction to publicize her millennial words? The word instapoets may be descriptive – “young poets publishing verse primarily on social media,” says that Guardian article I linked to – but it also sounds so dismissive, so […]



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