Lava Lamp Poems
Colleen Higgs
Hands-On Books
Love autobiography? Not sure if you’re sure about poetry? Lava Lamp Poems is the book for you.
Colleen Higgs, a one-woman publishing business owner, narrates an ordinary life made unordinary in its telling. She employs conversational style to examine experience in the new South Africa and the old, and demonstrates that effective writing is much more about what you say than about how you say it. But remember, poetry is not non-fiction.
Beware, as reader, the temptations to take as fact, everything you read. A poet this skilled will not only have crafted every line to perfection, but will have been free to disguise, withhold or embellish her tellings to whatever extent the poetry demanded… or not. – Moira Richards