Poetrygami

To be honest, I've read local poetry anthologies that are so bad, I don't even want to log it on GR.

While ‘Poetrygami' is not terrific, it's not all that terrible either. It's a brief, fluffy, one-sitting read with styles that are popular with insta-poetry fans. There's a few poems that I really liked, and a whole lot more that would have been better if the author had an English language editor go in there and tidy up some of the grammar and typos. Not even an English poetry editor, mind you, just someone with a better grasp of English. There's some potential here to be better, and I'm low-key mad that this looks like a bunch of drafts.

I took a quick look at Nick Adly's blog and his Malay poetry is decent (based on my limited exposure to modern Malay poetry). I suspect Poetrygami might have also suffered from a ‘think in one language, translate to another' issue, where nuances got lost in transit. It's worth a “try again”.