Aphrodite Made Me Do It: Volume 1 (Myth and Magick)

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I like that it personifies how we can all be something beautiful on our own, yet still connect to create something much larger and more beautiful as a whole. There is just something about Trista Mateer’s poetry, and art, that is very identifiable and comforting when you are feeling rubbish. Mateer simultaneously speaks to us about love and loss and the empowerment that can come from them, while channeling the goddess and retelling her story as a form of dedication and reclamation—not only for the goddess, but for those of us who never quite fit the mold they want to shove us into, the one they say is meant for us. The author uses this dialogue to explore ideas of womanhood, and womanhood in relation to the ideas that the goddess represents: pleasure and pain, love and sex, beauty and the gentle, suffering female.

I really appreciated that, despite this being Aphrodite inspired, the author didn’t allow love or romance to be the biggest part of her story – she actually says as much in a few of her poems. In this empowering retelling, she uses the mythology of the goddess to weave a common thread through the past and present. Also, some if not all the pictures and drawing - beautiful - have nothing to do with the poems they are associated with, it's disturbing and it makes the poetry book seem really cluttered, which is highly unpleasant. It talks about self-care and being responsible for your own healing and of finding the real meaning of love. There are multiple images throughout which felt a little juvenile – they genuinely looked like images captured from google with clip art attached, or were images with poignant quotes on which you’d often see scrolling along your chosen social media platform.It is an authentic dialogue between the poet and Goddess Aphrodite on various themes like love and hate. Couldn’t even bother trying to comprehend it all together—that I could be bloody and beautiful, that I could be divine and approachable. Similar to the witch doesn't burn in this one by amanda lovelace and You'll Come Back to Yourself by Michaela Angemeer, this collection of short powerful poems from Instagram and TikTok poet Trista Mateer will have you believing in the possibility of your own healing.

Featuring a vibrant rainbow design, and our super-sized Q logo, you won't find a more stylish way to make a statement.Here is also rage and sorrow; at the limitations and restrictions of a woman’s given role and taken rights; at the expectations heaped upon the female form and spirit; of the false representations used to define womanhood and thus control it.

This worked really well for me, much better in fact than deliberately pointed poems about finding your inner strength when faced with heartache or only needing yourself all along anyway, all of which I find isolating. The long-awaited second instalment in Samantha Shannon's Sunday Times and New York Times-bestselling series Tunuva Melim is a sister of the Priory. You will find grace between these pages and a little sadness, too--the kind that makes flowers grow in all of the places you need them most. I was a little horrified at an earlier review that said it came across as generic feminist poetry as I actually found this to be quite the opposite.

Each section (obviously) has its own themes and tones, and speaks to the reader on a different level. In response to these representations, the poet presents the reader with a powerful goddess, who knows her own mind and who is very angry. It’s worship and blasphemy, anger and heartache, capped off with tenderness and self-love and learning to cherish yourself no matter how many people in your life have failed to do so. This series is beautiful and devastating, somehow making me laugh and cry, tugging at my heartstrings in the best way. Trista Mateer is the bestselling author of multiple poetry collections, including Aphrodite Made Me Do It and Honeybee.

Bestselling and award-winning author Trista Mateer takes an imaginative approach to self-care in this new poetry and prose collection, Aphrodite Made Me Do It. In honor of that, I'm reviewing a poetry book I recently stumbled upon in my library's catalog on Hoopla and instantly fell in LOVE with. I felt like this book saw me on an oceanic-deep level and spoke to some of the rawest parts of me, while encouraging me to reconnect with myself and the warrior within. I received a free ARC of this book, with thanks to the author, Central Avenue Publishing and NetGalley.

Unfortunately they do not have this one as a physical copy, so I'll just have to wait until I can get my own— which I will totally be doing because this book is definitely worth rereading again and again. It gave me the chills, it made me cry and it gave me so many emotions that not many poem books were able to give me. And thank you: for dog-earing pages, for highlighting your favourite lines, for sharing your stories with me, for sharing your time with me. Its theme is not specific but mainly focuses on love, letting-go-of-past, be-your-self, self-healing etc. aphrodite then (as the feminist, lgbt icon she is) explains the power of love and forgiveness to our narrator.