2006 Author Reviews for
Vana Tuivana

I always feel awful when I review poets, because I simply lack the vocabulary to talk about what it is that they do when they do \'it\' well. Vana writes in a variety of forms: couplets, free verse, and she turns drabbles into appealing verse lines that are both visually and poetically interesting. She never wastes a word that I can see, and she manages to sustain several different moods when writing. Foreboding, sardonic, blackly humorous, and all of them in service to stories we might have thought we knew, but which attain a fresh perspective with these poems. Lyrical and compact, give Vana\'s work a try.

Vana is one of the most creative poet I ever seen. All her works are outstanding or are written in such an unique free style format that leaves me wondering every time how she did that! And I quickly re-read her work again? and again. I admire her craft in this and how she manages, mostly the Finweans, come alive so much through her works. Because this is what she brings to the reader: a living painting where so much is happening that you simply need to read it often. From romance, to drama, to humour? is there anything you cannot write about Vana?

I always feel awful when I review poets, because I simply lack the vocabulary to talk about what it is that they do when they do \'it\' well. Vana writes in a variety of forms: couplets, free verse, and she turns drabbles into appealing verse lines that are both visually and poetically interesting. She never wastes a word that I can see, and she manages to sustain several different moods when writing. Foreboding, sardonic, blackly humorous, and all of them in service to stories we might have thought we knew, but which attain a fresh perspective with these poems. Lyrical and compact, give Vana\'s work a try.

Vana is one of the most creative poet I ever seen. All her works are outstanding or are written in such an unique free style format that leaves me wondering every time how she did that! And I quickly re-read her work again? and again. I admire her craft in this and how she manages, mostly the Finweans, come alive so much through her works. Because this is what she brings to the reader: a living painting where so much is happening that you simply need to read it often. From romance, to drama, to humour? is there anything you cannot write about Vana?