{"id":21964,"date":"2022-01-13T09:00:09","date_gmt":"2022-01-13T17:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/?p=21964"},"modified":"2022-01-14T09:00:52","modified_gmt":"2022-01-14T17:00:52","slug":"new-poetry-collection-from-toronto-writer-natalie-wee-fresh-relatable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/2022\/01\/13\/new-poetry-collection-from-toronto-writer-natalie-wee-fresh-relatable\/","title":{"rendered":"New poetry collection from Toronto writer Natalie Wee fresh, relatable"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I\u2019m always trying to find more literature from queer writers, so I was thrilled to read Toronto-based writer Natalie Wee\u2019s new collection of poetry, Beast at Every Threshold<\/i>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The collection of poems touches on Wee\u2019s experiences as a woman, as a queer person, and as an immigrant. She does a magnificent job of exploring the concept of what it means to be \u201cother\u201d through the use of folklore and myth.<\/p>\n

Wee\u2019s poems have a distinctly youthful feeling that I really appreciate. In \u201cInside Joke,\u201d she uses text slang and incorporates the often-overlooked complexity of memes to convey how many young people communicate today. I love that she uses methods like this not to mock our increasingly technology-centred culture but to show the true human connections that exist within our online presences. It\u2019s details like this that make me feel truly connected to the poems, as they reflect the real world that I live in. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The theme of time is pervasive throughout Wee\u2019s poems, of how past and present aren\u2019t as well-defined as we often think they are. She beautifully and honestly weaves into her work how trauma from generations past can continue to impact generations in the present.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Beyond just the words themselves, the presentation of the poems feels fresh and creative. Wee uses the physical layout of her poems to visualize borders, the circularity of time, and flow charts that invite the reader to think deeper about the meaning of the poem at hand.<\/p>\n

While I was reading, one poem in particular really caught my attention. In \u201cSayang,\u201d Wee intentionally blocks out an individual\u2019s name. Just that simple change to the poem made me think harder about who this person is to her and how the message behind the poem shifts when their name is erased.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

I found Wee\u2019s Beast at Every Threshold<\/i> unapologetically youthful and thought-provoking. I would quite gladly read it several times over and I\u2019m sure I would find new and interesting details each time. She did an amazing job of portraying what it means on a personal level to be seen as \u201cother.\u201d<\/p>\n

The raw emotion and truth throughout her poems were a pleasure to read, both visually and intellectually.<\/p>\n

I would invite everyone, young and old, to read this book.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I\u2019m always trying to find more literature from queer writers, so I was thrilled to read Toronto-based writer Natalie Wee\u2019s new collection of poetry, Beast at Every Threshold.\u00a0 The collection of poems touches on Wee\u2019s experiences as a woman, as a queer person, and as an immigrant. She does a magnificent job of exploring the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":21965,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,261],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arts","category-january-10-2022"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21964","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21964"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21964\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21966,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21964\/revisions\/21966"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}