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Where Do Wishes Go?
Poems by Debra Bertulis, illustrated by Jess Mason
(Otter-Barry Books)
Where Do Wishes Go?
£7.99
Debra Bertulis opens Where Do Wishes Go? with Poems are Doors, where she reminds us that they are ‘there to unlock/ [though] You already have the key‘. It confirms that this writing form offers direct acknowledgement of what we feel, experience and observe.
Therefore, we recoil at the Greedy Gull! that ‘eyes/- spies/- swoops//- dips’. Then again, we feel the anxiety of the New Boy from ‘another land/ Where life was not always good/ Where people weren’t happy/ Where people weren’t kind’.
What’s more, we can hear Gran’s Cat answering Gran’s assertion that she ‘wouldn’t want to be out/ in this weahter/ scampering up trees’. The poet enables us to understand this relationship, this mutual respect and care.
There is a capable variety of poetry forms included within this selection. What’s more, there’s a variation of subjects too, though there are hopes, dreams, ambitions, from star gazing, to mountain climbing, considering other people’s lives and achievements. What’s more, there is such an awareness of the world about us, from moving home to blackberry picking or bird song.
Bookwagon loves and recommends Where Do Wishes Go? and looks forward to further books from this poet.
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