Falling Down the Page

Falling Down the Page is a poetry anthology edited by Georgia Heard, published by Roaring Book Press. It is a fun fast read playing loose with formatting on the page. The typography rally makes the poems work. They are list poems — list of things you see, things you do, things you say — collected in playful ways. Makes the reader stop and consider the minutiae of the world that we take for granted in our hurry-scurry life. A poem about all the important things in life which are not on the test. Elaine Magliano’s  poems I especially liked as it helped reframe my point of view by describing the pencil’s pink top hat and yellow suit.  I thought the poems by Avis Harley worked well also; my favourite was “Ways to greet a friend”. These are short one-page poems that are light quick reads which still can leave you thinking.