BfK 158 May 2006
Price: £5.99
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Genre: Poetry
Age Range: 14+ Secondary/Adult
Length: 48pp
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Reviewer: Helen Taylor
ISBN: 978-0571227686Price: £5.99
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Genre: Poetry
Age Range: 14+ Secondary/Adult
Length: 48pp
Buy the Book
The Book of Whispers
A book of observations and thoughts about teenage life in the form of poems which are whispers. Julie O’Callaghan seems to have tailored the poems for the American market using words like ‘hollered’, ‘cookies’, ‘butt’ and ‘mom’. The poems themselves are more observation than poetry, so although one can imagine a young teenager recognising the situations, the collection feels slight and leaves you feeling empty.