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