Maggie Nelson is continually innovative and original, like no other writer working today. Bluets is a collection of meditations on the colour blue, looking at other artists who have been fascinated by the colour including Joni Mitchell and Goethe, as well as using it as a lens through which to examine the breakdown of Nelson's own relationship. Presented as a series of vignettes, reading it feels like Nelson is cramming as many ideas into your head as humanly possible and letting you make of them what you will.

A poetic smorgasbord of snippets and patches, what classicists would call gobbets, but that's an ugly word for what these are, although at times they deal with ugly thoughts and feelings. Philosophical musings on lost love, depression and the colour blue. This ranges far and wide, Yves Klein, Derek Jarman, Nietschze and everything in between. This is angry and tender and beautiful. The fragmentary nature of the narrative allows you to think and insert your own ideas and feelings more readily into the mix. It's like a prose poem only it isn't prose and it isn't a poem. It is entirely its own, gorgeous thing.

Maggie Nelson writes about her obsession with the colour blue, whilst exploring the work of other artists and writers like Goethe, Joni Mitchell and Leonard Cohen who have featured the colour blue in their work. She also delves deep into her own life and experiences of pain, grief and desire. This book is many things. A meditation on the colour blue, a collection of thoughts on aesthetics and philosophy, several numbered prose poems. Ultimately, it’s like a treasury of creative inspirations, a way to look at the world in a different way. A truly original reading experience.