Wildfire Heart by Kanika Lawton


Wildfire Heart
Title : Wildfire Heart
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Language : English
Format Type : ebook
Number of Pages : 15
Publication : First published January 28, 2018

Chronicling the aftermath of a failed relationship, Kanika Lawton’s Wildfire Heart dances through anger and violence and grief.

A powerful collection, these eight poems sting like a lover. They know where the bruises are and cut right to the bone.

Wildfire Heart Reviews

  • callaina

    a strong collection of poems where the author's anger rings achingly true in its right to exist with each verse, using intricate and clever imagery. i especially liked Epitaph For Burning Palm Trees, Los Angeles 2016 after poet Richard Siken, and will look further into Lawton's work.

  • كيكه الوزير

    watch me fall into the arms of anyone who will look my way / find god in the line of your jaw and break it / and wipe us all off the map

    LOSE YOUR PHONE. FORGET YOU EVER EXISTED.

    We didn't bury each other deep enough.



    4.5 stars.

  • Margaryta

    Reading these poems made me feel nostalgic and remember how my relationship with poetry changed over the years. Lawton captured all the words and feelings I had when I was just a bit younger, and it's probably more a testament to have much I've grown when I can read these poems now without feeling so bruised or connected to them. Honest, if perhaps a little simplistic, but "Wildfire Heart" is a perfect little encapsulated world one can dive into, enjoy, and resurface back out from again.

  • charlie shaw

    "find god in the line of your jaw and break it"
    "I didn't want you to be the first / boy to say 'I love you' to me"
    "So the boy wanted to live inside your body / without paying any rent and you let him stay / because hey / it beats living all alone"

  • M. G.

    i went back to the ocean and asked her / how many bones have i dug up with my graveyard mouth? / and all she could say was:

    “you’re a cemetery just like me.”


    A bit of a hit and miss but Lawton gets some really stellar lines in there...

  • Marie

    'I love you sounds like getting your teeth pulled out'

  • Alix

    best poem title ever, "epitaph for burning palm trees, los angeles 2016."

  • Ignacia

    My fav was "There's blood everywhere but He's too busy kissing me to care"