Books like Mistakes in the Background

Oh dear. I really wanted to love this quirky book which combines poetry with artwork but found the poetry...well, rather silly actually. Most of the "poems" were long and waffly and sounded akin to Purple Ronnie! The poems don't have any real depth to them and are flippant. I hate to say it but Dockrill just dumps a load of rhyming words together in the hope that they make her pieces flow, which often, they don't. The vast majority of the poems collected here are forgettable and don't challenge you in any way. I don't mind humour and silliness but I like affecting work too, and wasn't moved by this at all. I thought there was an art, a real skill to writing poetry, but in this instance believe that anyone could pull off something similar :( The one poem I did like was 'Little Miss Winter' which was quite bittersweet. That was the only piece I had any connection with and felt slightly moved by. Sadly, I won't be recommending this book to anyone.