Abdullah Bin Imran reviews Record Player Life

Review:
Rachel Turney builds a strikingly vivid—and at times, haunting—world in Record Player Life (the b-side). The poems speak to each other with a level of nuance difficult to master without getting redundant, yet Turney achieves that balance seamlessly, almost like second nature. Poems like 'Oops' strike you in the gut, leaving you rereading and flipping through pages connecting the dots and weaving a storyline in snapshots. The adoration of cities runs as an underlying motif throughout, offering a mirror to the inner workings of what it means to be a human in this day and age. Beautifully written and clinging to the mind, Turney's work is irresistible, leaving the reader only yearning for more once they finish reading.