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POETRY
Love Her Wild
Atticus
Published: July 2017
Publisher: Headline
Page: 225, hardback
Rupi Kaur made social media poetry popular, but it’s Atticus, an anonymous Canadian poet currently living in LA, who didn’t even set out to be a poet, who seems to enjoying its benefits too. He has hundreds of thousands of followers on Instagram and celebrities like Shay Mitchell and Alicia Keys are reposting his poems, and even Emma Robert’s online book club, Belletrist, often uses them on its feeds. Apparently, Atticus only started writing poetry after a chance meeting with actor Michael Madsen (of ‘Kill Bill’ and Reservoir Dogs fame), who told him that reading and writing poetry was what saved him from ‘addiction’ and depression. Now, poetry is how he makes sense of the world, writes Atticus on his introduction on his Instagram page. And reading ‘Love Her Wild’, or even occasionally dipping into it, will make you realize that his poetry can help you do the same.
The effects of poetry are manifold. For some, it might work like a mantra that gets them all pepped up, for others it might be able to provide comfort in the most trying of times but what it always does is come to your rescue just when you need it. As Atticus writes, “Poetry’s magic is that it is found when it’s needed”.
In Love Her Wild, a collection of new poems with some of the old ones on Instagram, the young poet writes about romance, the highs of love, and heartbreaking lows of life among many other emotions. And he writes with such finesse that sometimes a single line is enough to get you through a particularly bad day. If you haven’t discovered Atticus yet, we’d say it’s about time you did.
