This was such an interesting from of poetry and art interaction. I really enjoyed the interpretation the author conveys of relationships with snow.

I just did not connect to the poems in this little collection. Sadly enough that is a huge part of reading poetry for me, so, therefore, I did not enjoy this collection as much as I wanted to.

Im from Northern Michigan but had to move to Arizona this month last year. This book helped remind me of home which is nice because I am always homesick. Snow is one of my favorite things about Michigan and this book embodied it perfectly.

Not a bad book, just my kids did not get into it very much.

While I do enjoy poetry, imagery, and art, I found this a little hard to follow in the beginning. It was disjointed, in my opinion. I felt that random words were just placed together to form some kind of unorganized thought. It seemed that after the first few poems, the writing style (or writer) changed and things came together. I like the different textile images. I enjoyed the descriptions of the person cutting the paper, putting it carefully together. Towards the middle of this book, the poems became more story-like and described something much deeper and leaves it open to the reader's own perspective.

Bring on the snow with a roaring fire in the fireplace, a hot cup of tea, and a thick blanket. Robert Seatters book of poetry brings the magic of life and snow together in this wonderful book. With stunning art this book is sure to become a treasure.

This a book full of quick poems however it was hard to follow because it's told in second perspective. If you love poetry though it would a good book for someone who wants something different.

Overall: 3/5
Writing: 3/5
Art: 5/5
Cover: 5/5

Reading Robert Seatter's poem collection for the second time, I had expectations for this book. However, I did not find it as appealing as "Travelling To The Fish Orchards." Although the stage of feelings and the patterns of snowflakes did change as the pages went on, I felt some of the poems was pretty monotonous and didn't really see the appeal, The art, on the other hand, was pretty gorgeous, I've always loved snowflakes and I did like them, but I couldn't really feel the connection between the images and some of the poems. Some of them, of course, were rather lovely, but overall I do not consider this a book I would buy or recommend to others.

Thank you for this book. I have a kindle paperwhite, which does not show images and some of the words were grey rather than black, making it difficult to follow. I also think the formatting was not the way it would be in print. Due to that, I can't really write a review of the book. I will look for it in the print format in the future. Thank you.

I loved the idea of this poetry book. Poems linking life and Snow and it did succeed in some ways, there were some really lovely poems, but in other places it came up short.

In a piece as short as this one every piece must be able to connect and engage the reader, and sadly I didn't connect as much as I wanted to. I think that this can be attributed to their being too many direct references to snow and less emotion then there could have been and even some more simple discription could have made the whole book stronger.

My favorite piece in this book was collage 2 where it was undisernable as to what was said because it was done like this:

Iiii I I CHHaaa nnnnt Dddd ddd do do ttthhhis qui qui I te rrrigghhht

Like a true human caught in a storm shirvering so much they can't get there words out, I loved that. (That part was inspiring to me as an aspiring poet myself) I truly wish that there was more.

The Book of snow is a collection of poetry by Robert Seatter. It is his fourth poetry collection. The previous ones are Travelling to the Fish Orchards,On the Beach with Chet Baker, and Writing King Kong.

The Book of Snow consists of thirty-eight poems about snow, variating from the grey, grim snow to the pure and beautiful kind.

Robert Seatter explains his relationship through the description of snow, leading us through all the stages of it by explaining all kind of snow. All the poems are written and sound quite differently because of feeling that is the main motif in it.

I personally did not quite like The Book of Snow poetry collection, I find it quite monotonous and even kind of dragged out. I did not feel the feeling the poems were insinuating and had a hard time connecting with the images presented.
The book was illustrated by Jessica Palmer. I find the illustrations were quite nice, but I cannot say I was blown away.
I received this book in exchange for an honest review.

The Book of Snow by Robert Seatter is the poet's fourth collection of poetry. Seatter has published three poetry collections: Travelling to the Fish Orchards, On the Beach with Chet Baker, and Writing King Kong. He lives in London where he works for the BBC as Head of BBC History, following earlier careers in publishing, acting and teaching.

Seatter' forward includes the Margaret Atwood quote about the Eskimos having fifty-two words for snow. He, in turn, gives us thirty-eight poems about snow. From the gray dreariness of midwinter to the unimaginable whiteness of the frozen palace in Dr. Zhivago, snow has a deeper meaning than simply frozen water. He compares the snow to white noise and the reader can see the comparison of the white noise static of a television screen or static of a radio and a blizzard.

just the radio transmitting endless white noise.
Even when we sleep now,
(at the very bottom of the next empty page)
our dreams stream white.

"How We Sleep Now" seems to leave the reader trapped in winter much like being stuck in a snow globe. Anyone from the north can relate to the feeling of being trapped inside of winter come January and February. Included is a tribute to Wilson Bentley the first person to photograph a snowflake in 1885. He eventually collected 5,000 unique images of snowflakes.

Seatter also includes the art of Jessica Palmer and the designs of Sally James in this collection. Their art contributes nicely with the written word. From cutting snowflakes to the graphic art, everything comes together with art inspiring the writing and the writing influencing the art. A nice collection to read in front of the fireplace.