Set out what it was meant to do, some poems I prefered over the others; few of them did nothing for me. Interested in her other work.

A truly exquisite collection of poems. Searingly honest and breathtakingly beautiful. A book to hold close and revisit over and over and over. Salena Godden really is one of the best poets of our time.

With Love, Grief and Fury is a new collection of poetry by Salena Godden, spanning a huge range of topics from rage at the state of the world to what it is like being a poet. Poems explore love, getting older, injustice, climate, and our collective futures, amongst other things, and there is real variation across the collection. Bringing it together are a sequence of poems with the same title as the collection, exploring the future in various ways.

Perhaps my favourite poem in the collection is 'Wish You Were Here', a poem about climate crisis and the British seaside and Covid-19 all smashed together into a powerful message, picture postcards from the apocalypse. I like that some of the poems take common imagery and ideas and push further into their political implications, like how 'Great-Granddaughters' rethinks ideas of witch heritage in relation to race and class and how 'Dirty Old Men' plays with the contrast between teenagers and the "dirty old men" who hold all the power. The collection is accessible and fast-paced, making it ideal not just for poetry fans, but for people looking for ways to get into poetry (though there are a lot of poems about writing or performing poetry that are perhaps more suited to poets reading the book).