REVIEW: I Tell Henrietta by Tina Barry

Jen Knox, Unleash Lit, March 2025

 

Tina Barry’s poetry collection, I Tell Henrietta, sticks to the ribs. The slim collection includes nine illustrations by the artist Kristin Flynn to offer readers an ekphrastic experience...

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To sit back and write a review, a thing I rarely do lately, I kept thinking of Campbell’s archetypes, Jung’s The Red Book, and the call of a close narrative to return to certain scenes that seemed raised questions about human perception and intention that we often forget.

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https://www.unleashlit.com/p/review-i-tell-henrietta-by-tina-barry

 

Review of Tina Barry’s I Tell Henrietta by Britta Stromeyer

Bending Genres, October 24, 2024  

 

Tina Barry’s I Tell Henrietta, a collaboration with artist Kristin Flynn, is a riveting miscellany of poetry, prose, and art that defies traditional genre boundaries. This imaginative collection reads like a novella, weaving together fragments of a life story that feels deeply personal yet universally resonant. Barry’s work, infused with Flynn’s evocative artwork, takes readers on an emotional journey that spans the narrator’s lifetime, from the raw pain of a childhood without a father figure to the bittersweet reflections of adult-and motherhood.

https://bendinggenres.com/review-of-tina-barrys-i-tell-henrietta-by-britta-stromeyer/

 

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