About a week ago I decided that I really wanted to start reading and review ARC’s (advanced readers copies) and so I googled and figured it out. New Names for Lost Things by Noor Unnahar is the first review I have done of an ARC and I am glad it is.

Poetry for me has always been like a balm for the soul. And this collection is no different. Deeply personal I am not shocked at all by how much this collection moved me. The publisher is the same one that publishes all of Amanda Lovelace’s poetry (which I adore) so I had high expectations of the collection and I was not disappointed.

This collection felt like I was following the author through different phases of her life. And interspersed with the poems are deeply moving black and white images that go along with each poem. They add so much to the collection as they are not everywhere, but they are a nice transition between sections.