Unfortunately, my opinion of the musicality of language is that Gill’s efforts are somewhat limited. Even so, this is an important and difficult theme, one that is rarely addressed for teens in particular, so for that alone I laud the effort.Īs evident from the cover, Wild Embers features a number of motifs, particularly outer space, which contribute to a sense of musical language that permeates the book. Groupings of poems discuss fairy tale princesses and Greek goddesses in this context (which was somewhat uncomfortable, since it was apparent that Gill used mostly popular understanding of these figures, not the original fairy tales or myths). Gill speaks of friendships and relationships fallen apart, of learning to love oneself and forgive oneself and others for actions carried out as a result of pain. Rebellion, fire, and beauty are all motifs contained within Gill’s extensive collection, but most of the freeverse and prose poems contained within focus on a more nebulous theme - abuse and recovery. The descriptions on Amazon and so on do not clarify well enough the theme of this collection of poetry. Wild Embers by Nikita Gill was the hardest book of my assignment so far to get my hands on (I had to make a purchase request from my library).
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The style you write in has given me a new perspective and a renewed inspiration in reading once again. To quote reader Roberta Baden-Powell: 'I'm looking forward to reading your new book and find your books the best so far. Her novel 'His Ladyship' made the finals and Longlist of the 2021 Page Turner Award, and her new manuscript 'Falling' reached the finals of the 2022 Page Turner Award. Turner, who currently has a Twitch streamer gimmick. Her novella 'Scam!' won the Electric Eclectic Novella Fiction Prize for 2020: During the January 31 episode of WWE NXT, Stevie Turner officially made her stateside debut with a dominant victory over Dani Palmer. Her novella 'Finding David' was a quarter-finalist in the 2019 ScreenCraft Cinematic Short Story Competition. Her third novel 'A House Without Windows' gained the attention of a New York media production company in December 2017, and her screenplay 'For the Sake of a Child' won Silver in the 2017 Depth of Field International Film Festival. 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