Your answers reveal someone who understands deeply the interconnected nature of life. Like Ronna Bloom’s mature and poised poetry collection, you seek quiet contemplation, but aren’t afraid to throw out some dry humour (like releasing Sisyphus from his burdens). Whether on a hillside or in a hospital, you welcome life with a sense of warmth and dignity. 

Your awareness of the fullness of life, from the lows to the highs, align perfectly with Bloom’s funny while serious poems. The characters you’ll encounter in In a Riptide are tired, sick, old, fragile, baffled, worried, dying, dead, uncertain, snacking, happy, generous, preoccupied, horny, astonished, and sometimes free. If you want to laugh at the absurdity of life and death, these poems are for you. Bloom’s meditative words mirror your own desire to cultivate a full awareness of your life and your surroundings. 

These poems don’t shy away from the fact that life is difficult a lot of the time. You can trust these poems to guide you through the unknowns of life, like illness, sickness, and death, and emerge feeling more hopeful.

Your answers reveal someone who finds profound meaning in unexpected places and values authentic connection with both nature and social causes. Like Anna Swanson's innovative poetry collection, you appreciate the transformative power of looking beyond surface appearances—whether that's finding beauty in a quiet lake swim or recognizing the deeper messages hidden in everyday objects like discarded wrappers.

Your environmental consciousness and attraction to water as a restorative space align perfectly with Swanson's work, which literally transforms trash collected from swimming holes into profound poetry about chronic illness, climate crisis, and the fierce joy of wild swimming. The book's refusal to conform to expected narratives mirrors your own complex relationship with love and politics, where you seek both protection for people and planet, and understand that meaningful connections require constant renewal and care.

These poems celebrate the kind of embodied pleasure and resilience that someone drawn to both nostalgic music and transformative literature would appreciate—finding voice and beauty in fragments, just as you might find meaning in the small, crumpled reminders of daily life.

Your answers reveal someone who wholeheartedly finds and builds caring and loving communities. Like Charlie Petch’s boundary-pushing spoken word poems and theatre monologues, you appreciate coming together with your peers to celebrate a fully authentic you—with some tongue-in-cheek humour. 

Your political fervour and sense of humour align perfectly with Petch’s work, which reflects a transmasculine and disabled experience of the world in a voice that is funny, humane and rooted in deep authenticity. Like Petch, you don’t shy away from the violence and hate of the world, and know that your genuine connections with people can help create spaces of joy and safety. This book mirrors your love of performance and theatrics, as Petch creates poems to the tune of Chris Isaak’s “Wicked Game” and rewrites classics like Pinocchio. 

In these poems, you can only expect the unexpected, perfect for someone wanting to be fully drawn into small (and bizarre) worlds that make you laugh out loud with your friends.