Title: It's the sound of a thing

Author: Maxine Beneba Clarke

Reviewer: Rhonda Bruce

Audience: young people and adults

TEXT SHRUG : a found poem

lol, omg,

srsly

icymi : idgas

rofl! (P 99)

CONFISCATED

I really need my phone back

Dad doesn't understand

how my fingers start a-twitching

when it isn't in my hand

I don't know where my mates are

I can't Snapchat-track their moves

I've really started panicking

I'm feeling kind of blue

(P 142)

Maxine Beneba Clarke has written 100 poems about everyday life, childhood, growing up, sounds of the neighbourhood, messy rooms, grandfather's fading memory, alliteration, screen time and 22 reasons I can't sleep. a collection of poems, from haikus to limericks, sonnets to concrete poems, free verse to rhyming couplets.  The poems are also listed by Poetic Form and encompasses a wonderful range of thoughts and ideas.

*Relevant to the Year 7-10 English Syllabus Wide Reading Program