I Want to Wake up to the World

One of this year’s strongest books is a poetry collection by a debut author.

These existential poems feels necessary right now. They are best read slowly, as we move into the new year.

Brændjord’s first book is a luminous poetry collection about grief and reconciliation. This is poetry that is both naked and imaginative, despairing and hopeful. Deeply personal, it goes right to the heart of what it means to be human.

What makes such an impression is the author’s linguistic skill.

Incredibly, this is a lively, positive and humorous poetry collection about the suicide of a close family member. A stunning debut.

Years pass between each time someone debuts with a poetry collection of the quality, originality and integrity Brændjord presents us with here.

An inventive and lively book, pregnant with solemnity. The mother’s suicide occurs again and again throughout the 79 pages – it is terribly and astonishingly well-written.