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Doom Rolled in Glitter
Twenty poems from Leena Norms about the grit and globs of glitter that we wade through in our twenties. From friendship break-ups to the annual identity-crisis, and first love to facing climate change, this is a zine-collection of what it means to faff and fail through our first decade as an adult; and how we might come out glittering.
- GenresPoetryNonfiction
36 pages, Zine
First published November 1, 2019
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November 17, 2019
So, so good. Spaces in the Sky is one of my all time favorite poems.
October 30, 2019
I haven’t been following Leena’s channel for very long, but I am so happy that I do! When I heard she was self publishing a poetry collection I literally squealed with excitement, and she did an amazing job! I especially loved ‘how to find yourself’, ‘small talk’ and ‘the cliff’. This lovely collection of poetry describes feelings we’ve probably all had in one way or another, and it’s so well done.
Leena, if you read this: thank you for moulding your 20’s into this beautiful collection of poetry and sharing it with us. It was real, raw, recognisable and honest and I would recommend it to all the contemporary poetry lovers out there!
Leena, if you read this: thank you for moulding your 20’s into this beautiful collection of poetry and sharing it with us. It was real, raw, recognisable and honest and I would recommend it to all the contemporary poetry lovers out there!
February 25, 2023
I always think I don't "get" poetry, but I felt this. :)
November 6, 2019
At the end of the month I turn 25, and so much of this was what I needed to hear right now as the milestone looms. Thank you, Leena, for yoor your words, your advice, your hope.
January 5, 2020
I don't really read much poetry so I don't know how to rate. But I really enjoyed it so 5 stars! I particularly enjoyed Small Talk and Leaflet. Also the artwork is beautiful and I want a print.
December 27, 2019
I love pretty much everything Leena Norms has ever made, and I do mean love. This did not dissapoint, which is a big achievement considering how much I was looking forward to it. Her style of poetry works incredibly well for me and always leaves me thinking about the world a bit more subtly, kindly and honestly. And it just leaves me feeling very seen. It was also an interesting experience reading some poems which I had heard her perform on YouTube - it definitely illustrated how important performance can be, and how much it can change your reading of poetry.
Also, it's just an absolutely beautiful zine.
Also, it's just an absolutely beautiful zine.
March 16, 2020
I loved this very, very much. Spaces in the Sky is one of my favourite poems, and it was lovely to have a physical copy in this collection. Leena has such a beautiful way of stringing words together, of making really hard hitting phrases out of the mundane. Every single poem in here was a pleasure to read and I related to lots of them.
I think my favourites were: Gaggle, How to Find Yourself, Spaces in the Sky, The Cliff, Small Talk, and Make Art For Your Friends, but honestly I felt that all of them had something great to offer. I can't remember the last time I loved a poetry collection/zine this much!
I think my favourites were: Gaggle, How to Find Yourself, Spaces in the Sky, The Cliff, Small Talk, and Make Art For Your Friends, but honestly I felt that all of them had something great to offer. I can't remember the last time I loved a poetry collection/zine this much!
January 13, 2020
I usually have a harder time connecting to written poetry than spoken when it's in English but this just hit me really hard, really well. Maybe it's the soon turning 20 that made poems about someone else's twenties feel so real. I love this sort of rambling poetry with clever words and turns. Some words and metaphors were a bit difficult to get at a first read since I'm not a native English speaker but I think I figured most of it out eventually. Favorite poems: binge, how to find yourself, the cliff, small talk, leaflet, ballot.
November 1, 2019
A fantastic collection of thoughtful poems split into three sections. As someone who is interested in poetry but sometimes doesn’t know where to start this was a lovely zine to spend time with. I have some firm favourites I’ve already been reading to friends over the phone, some which will stick with me, and some which feel very relevant in our current political climate in the UK 🤦♀️ I would recommend this zine to everyone, their mums, their best friends, and their younger siblings!
November 11, 2019
Amazing short poetry collection which is witty and powerful. In particular loved the final “Doing” section - too many of my favourite poems to choose! (Although particularly liked What To Do Whilst Waiting For Love).
Gorgeous little collection which would highly recommend you get your hands on if you can!
Gorgeous little collection which would highly recommend you get your hands on if you can!
November 18, 2019
Poetry that is insightful, relatable, and comforting to know that other people also experience highs and lows throughout their 20s.
The illustrations were also stunning and fit so well into the entire aesthetic for the collection. I definitely recommend this poetry collection for anyone who want connection and community with another stumbling but glorious twenty-something.
The illustrations were also stunning and fit so well into the entire aesthetic for the collection. I definitely recommend this poetry collection for anyone who want connection and community with another stumbling but glorious twenty-something.
November 4, 2019
I had a few favourites in here, but love how it reminded me how I love to write poetry and how I find a way to declutter my brain through it. Thank you for sharing these personal thoughts through poems with us Leena!
November 10, 2019
A superb collection, but leaflet was my fave!
June 16, 2020
This hit me unexpectedly hard. I didn't know Leena Norms before a dear friend sent me this collection, but this was the best possible introduction.
October 22, 2020
I have been a fan of Leena's youtube channel for ages and being able to buy her poetry collection felt surreal to begin with. Her channel has helped me through a lot; giving me advice on what to study, telling me it was okay to do what I like, but it was also okay to not be overly ambitious if that made me unhappy. I had the guts to study English language and culture and Law, even though everyone in the family expected me to pursue sciences. But that is not all... I couldn't sleep last night (uni is really getting to me) and this was like a warm comforting blanket to put my thoughts at ease but also to feel understood!
Would recommend this poetry Zine to everyone! You don't need to be in your twenties for it to have an impact on you ( I think, I am in my twenties, so can't attest to that)
Would recommend this poetry Zine to everyone! You don't need to be in your twenties for it to have an impact on you ( I think, I am in my twenties, so can't attest to that)
April 15, 2020
Anyone who can create a book of poems with such delicate and caring words is a 5 star read.
One I’ll be going back again and again to devour the moments that the words create that make us feel seen and understood. A beautiful collection.
One I’ll be going back again and again to devour the moments that the words create that make us feel seen and understood. A beautiful collection.
September 24, 2020
Amazing. I’ve waited so long to get my hands on a copy of Leena’s zine & when it came in today I shut myself in my room & read it cover to cover. It’s relatable, touching, fun, beautiful. It made me teary!! Highly recommend!
February 9, 2021
Best poems:
- How to find yourself
- The cliff
- Small talk
- Make art for your friends
- How to find yourself
- The cliff
- Small talk
- Make art for your friends
July 26, 2020
'small talk' was a bit good
but for the most
these did not speak to me
but for the most
these did not speak to me
October 30, 2019
When I got home today and found this zine in my mailbox, I immediately read it through all in one. Later I read it again, this time more slowly, bit by bit. As this review will only cover this first- and second impression, it might change over time. However, the fact that I read the zine already twice since the moment I got it earlier today, should give you a slight clue on my opinion of it ;)
Both in form- and content I found 'Doom Rolled in Glitter' an excellent concept. To start with form, I was pleasantly surprised by the compostable paper of the wrapping and the zine itself, as well as two copies of it arriving instead of one (bonus points for arriving exactly on my birthday 28/10, hehe). I actually found this to go really well with the pan-ultimate poem to 'make art for your friends' (more on that later). I already knew the zine would be split up in three sections but I was pleasantly surpised by the last poem, which takes a form I didn't expect but really enjoyed and think is very original (won't elaborate on that here, see for yourself).
Originality is a word that in my opinion also applies to the content of 'Doom Rolled in Glitter, or maybe better said: it's 'authenticity'. What I mean by this is that I haven't experienced the way the poems are written by anyone else but their creator. I happen to enjoy this particular way of writing which untill now I only associate with Leena Norms. I find it to be universal in it's diversity, visual, spirited and full of ideals. To me a good example of the visuality of the collection are the poems 'Binge', 'Shame' and 'Small talk' whom I love equally for the acute way they make me feel and their beautiful use of metaphors and expressions. The idealistic component, I personally saw in 'Ballot' and 'Make art for your friends', the last of which I love for the way it connects to the concept of sending two zines for a manageble price (which let's us at least share art (if not making it) and therefor makes us partake in this idea). As if now, my favourite poems are 'Spring clean', 'The cliff' and 'How to find yourself', the first of which I would like to quote some lines from below:
I pick you out
from under my fingernails
Wipe you from my surfaces
Rinse you from my hair
Dust parts of you from me
Like old skin
Throw open my windows
And let the breeze blow in.
Both in form- and content I found 'Doom Rolled in Glitter' an excellent concept. To start with form, I was pleasantly surprised by the compostable paper of the wrapping and the zine itself, as well as two copies of it arriving instead of one (bonus points for arriving exactly on my birthday 28/10, hehe). I actually found this to go really well with the pan-ultimate poem to 'make art for your friends' (more on that later). I already knew the zine would be split up in three sections but I was pleasantly surpised by the last poem, which takes a form I didn't expect but really enjoyed and think is very original (won't elaborate on that here, see for yourself).
Originality is a word that in my opinion also applies to the content of 'Doom Rolled in Glitter, or maybe better said: it's 'authenticity'. What I mean by this is that I haven't experienced the way the poems are written by anyone else but their creator. I happen to enjoy this particular way of writing which untill now I only associate with Leena Norms. I find it to be universal in it's diversity, visual, spirited and full of ideals. To me a good example of the visuality of the collection are the poems 'Binge', 'Shame' and 'Small talk' whom I love equally for the acute way they make me feel and their beautiful use of metaphors and expressions. The idealistic component, I personally saw in 'Ballot' and 'Make art for your friends', the last of which I love for the way it connects to the concept of sending two zines for a manageble price (which let's us at least share art (if not making it) and therefor makes us partake in this idea). As if now, my favourite poems are 'Spring clean', 'The cliff' and 'How to find yourself', the first of which I would like to quote some lines from below:
I pick you out
from under my fingernails
Wipe you from my surfaces
Rinse you from my hair
Dust parts of you from me
Like old skin
Throw open my windows
And let the breeze blow in.
January 27, 2020
leena! my woman! she's great!
i enjoyed this collection a lot, even though i'm not someone who reads lots of poetry or who know how to talk about it. the only distinction i can do is whether a poem made me feel things or not, and most of this collection definitely did. having watched leena on youtube for a long while now, it is very cool to be able to hear her voice in these. also these words are good to hear generally as someone in her twenties and feeling a little (very) lost in a few different aspects. go watch and read her! she says v interesting stuff and helps you feel less lost!
i enjoyed this collection a lot, even though i'm not someone who reads lots of poetry or who know how to talk about it. the only distinction i can do is whether a poem made me feel things or not, and most of this collection definitely did. having watched leena on youtube for a long while now, it is very cool to be able to hear her voice in these. also these words are good to hear generally as someone in her twenties and feeling a little (very) lost in a few different aspects. go watch and read her! she says v interesting stuff and helps you feel less lost!
November 11, 2019
I'd describe this as a warm hug, I've loved Leena's videos for years now and I've always found them to be the corner of the internet I turn to when I need advice on anything. Having just turned 20, I loved this incredibly unique selection of poems that will hopefully have me prepared to face this next decade!
October 31, 2019
This is the 'something that talks about the actual experience of being a 20 something' that I have been looking.
Beautiful artwork too!
Beautiful artwork too!
November 13, 2019
For me, this is a real snapshot of being in your twenties. I can also picture Leena reading these poems aloud, which definitely benefited my experience.
November 18, 2020
I enjoyed this so much that I binged all twenty poems in one evening. Leena describes things that I've also felt and thought about so well and reading her poetry somehow felt like an intimate late night conversation you'd have with a person close to you while being slightly drunk on wine. While she reflects on her own life a lot it still feels like she's giving me advice for my own. And don't get me started on the beautiful pastel design. So yeah, I loved everything about this.
April 26, 2020
As a Gumption-er I am so happy to see this publication. Leena's poetry is a contemporary and honest gaze on current issues and life.
April 28, 2020
Favourite poems were:
• two-point-oh
• how to find yourself
• the cliff
• rear-view romance
• small talk
• ballot
• make art for your friends
• two-point-oh
• how to find yourself
• the cliff
• rear-view romance
• small talk
• ballot
• make art for your friends
July 22, 2020
I enjoyed all the 20 poems ☺️ However, 4 blew me away!
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July 26, 2020Favorite poems:
1) Small talk
2) Spaces in the sky
3) Two-point-oh
4) Leaflet
1) Small talk
2) Spaces in the sky
3) Two-point-oh
4) Leaflet
September 22, 2020
Short, sweet and witty! Definitely found a few new favourite poems.
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