![]() ![]() ![]() One reinterprets the heroines of fairy tales, Grimm’s and Disney’s, to provide a different understanding of Sleeping Beauty, Belle, Snow White, Cinderella, Little Red Riding Hood, and Alice in Wonderland. ![]() The collection includes two notable series of poems. Gill mirrors the feelings and experiences of many young people, especially young women, as they deal with relationships (good, bad, and indifferent) and love. If there is a unifying theme to Wild Embers, it is one combining feminism with common emotional feelings. The brevity is conducive for posting on Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, and other social channels. And all of that comes to the fore in her more recent work, a collection of poetry, Wild Embers: Poems of Rebellion, Fire, and Beauty, comprising 131 mostly short poems. Her work has an especially strong sense of the visual, employing simple yet powerful images. A London-based poet, writer, visual artist, and photographer, Gill blends poetry, stories, and myths and legends in her writing. ![]()
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