Milk and Honey is a collection of poems that tackles tough themes – rape, violence, alcoholism, trauma – but it’s written in Kaur’s trademark short, simple verse – with her own illustrations acting as visual punctuations. I was posting stuff online just because it made me feel relieved – as a way of getting things off my chest.” “I wasn’t trying to write a book, it wasn’t even in my vision. “My book would never have been published without social media,” she says. Followers came in their droves – 1.3 million of them at the last count (though notably she follows no one). She took a stand against Instagram, pointing out the hypocrisy of a platform that hosted sexual images of women yet censored a typical female experience. She was catapulted into the limelight after Instagram banned a self-portrait photograph, in which she is seen lying on a bed with menstrual bloodstained sheets. Kaur is one of a burgeoning group of young “Instapoets”, so called because they have shot to fame after building up huge followings on social media.
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