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Art is a Waste of Time: Poetry Collection Paperback – June 12, 2019

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Art is a Waste of Time is Zarina Macha’s debut poetry collection, first published in 2018. This body of work contains poems Macha wrote between the years 2013 and 2018, capturing a teenage girl's growth into a young woman.

A small segment of poems she wrote as a child in the year 2007 is included at the back of the book.

Macha has written extensively in styles of satire, confessionalism and free verse. Themes of fear, loneliness, angst, desire, and womanhood flow throughout this collection.

A coming-of-age compilation of honest, direct, and emotive literary imagery. Perfect for fans of contemporary poetry.
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    June 12, 2019
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    1916132642
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Zarina Macha is an author, blogger and musician born and raised in London, UK. She studied Songwriting and Creative Artistry at The Academy of Contemporary Music in Guildford. She regularly writes a social comment blog titled 'The Zarina Macha Blog.' In her spare time she loves reading and fan-girling over Game of Thrones.

In 2018 she began independently publishing her books through Amazon's Kindle Direct Publishing platform. Every Last Psycho and Anne are her young-adult fiction novels that deal with mental illness, drug abuse, domestic violence and coming-of-age. Art is a Waste of Time and Single Broke Female are her two poetry books.

Around Midnight is her fifth self-published work. It is a young-adult drama about jazz, ambition, and a toxic relationship.

For more information about her please visit zarinamacha.co.uk.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Zarina Macha (June 12, 2019)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 108 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1916132642
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1916132641
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 6.1 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.06 x 0.27 x 7.81 inches
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.6 4.6 out of 5 stars 3 ratings

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Zarina Macha is an author, blogger, poet, musician, and YouTuber from London, UK. She has currently self-published twenty-one books: six under her name and fifteen as Diana Vale. In 2021, her young adult novel Anne won the international Page Turner Book Award for fiction. In 2023 she released Tic Tac Toe, a young adult dystopian novel that depicts a cultural Marxist society and satirises wokeism, identity politics, and political correctness.

She began publishing her work in 2018 while completing a degree in Songwriting and Creative Artistry from The Academy of Contemporary Music (ACM) in Guildford. Her three published YA fiction works are Every Last Psycho (2018), a compilation of two novellas that deal with heavy trauma and mental illness; Anne (2019), a coming-of-age novel about domestic violence, and Around Midnight (2020), a novel about an emotionally abusive teenage relationship.

She has also published two poetry volumes; Art is a Waste of Time (2018) and Single Broke Female (2019). Both explore the essence of womanhood, including sexuality, femininity, and emotional angst. She has performed her poetry at various functions in London, including Poetry Unplugged, the Farrago Slam, and the Global Fusion Music & Arts Spoken Word events.

In 2021 Macha began writing contemporary new adult romance under the pen name Diana Vale. Her Kirk University books are standalone stories about students who find love at university. This fictitious university is based on the real-life University of York in northern England where Macha briefly attended prior to ACM.

Macha has two YouTube channels: Zarina Macha Author, where she makes videos about her books and writing process, and The Rational Female, where she criticises Feminism. She identifies as an anti-Feminist women’s advocate, egalitarian and humanitarian. She believes in freedom, justice, and human rights for all, and seeks to protect free speech at all costs. She is also strongly against the use of sensitivity readers in fiction.

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Jim Bennett
5.0 out of 5 stars Sixty-eight very nice poems.
Reviewed in the United States on March 20, 2020
A large collection will often have a number of poems that specially speak to me. I will mention some of them here, but be brief.
To be blown away, turn to Companion. For an unusual point of view, turn to Pure Torture, told from the mind of a circus animal. For social commentary, turn to Too Young. For a surprise (to put it gently) turn to There’s Blood on my Sheets.
For introspection, turn to Red Hot Anger.
This is a large collection and I found several favourites in it. You will find yours. Highly recommended.
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Steph Warren
4.0 out of 5 stars a strong, diverse collection that I recommend to fans of modern poetry
Reviewed in the United States on December 31, 2018
This is an extensive collection of poetry containing a little of everything.

The poems are in alphabetical order by title, creating a random feel as we move between styles and subjects. The overall impression is one of an intimate immersion in the chaotic thoughts and feelings of the word artist from whom the ideas flow, freely and openly.

Zarina Macha’s love of word play and her raw honesty shine through in every page of her writing, singing in vivid imagery and erratic rhythms, alliteration and profanity.

In one poem we may get flowery, romantic verse with intricate imagery and in the next, strong, bold and direct prose-poetry, visceral and earthy.

The poems span years and therefore the topics covered are equally varied, but there is a running theme of womanhood: women’s love, women’s pain, women’s experience and women’s bodies. These impressions are intermixed with everything else from romantic love, race, religion, sex and (more than once) Game of Thrones!

Overall this is a strong, diverse collection that I recommend to fans of modern poetry. The inclusion of a few poems written in her childhood is a fun bonus from the author at the end.

If you read my poetry

If you read my poetry
If you heard my songs
you would understand me a lot better
than if we stood
face to face
side by side
shoulder to shoulder
you would see the cracks
in a mask so carefully built
sealed to protect a fragile heart
from tumbling down the cliff
draining a frothy waterfall
welled up a leaky dam
that mooches up and down streets
slumped into rounded shadows.

– Zarina Macha, Art is a Waste of Time

Review by Steph Warren of Bookshine and Readbows blog
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Steph Warren
4.0 out of 5 stars A strong, diverse collection that I recommend to fans of modern poetry
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on December 31, 2018
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This is an extensive collection of poetry containing a little of everything.

The poems are in alphabetical order by title, creating a random feel as we move between styles and subjects. The overall impression is one of an intimate immersion in the chaotic thoughts and feelings of the word artist from whom the ideas flow, freely and openly.

Zarina Macha’s love of word play and her raw honesty shine through in every page of her writing, singing in vivid imagery and erratic rhythms, alliteration and profanity.

In one poem we may get flowery, romantic verse with intricate imagery and in the next, strong, bold and direct prose-poetry, visceral and earthy.

The poems span years and therefore the topics covered are equally varied, but there is a running theme of womanhood: women’s love, women’s pain, women’s experience and women’s bodies. These impressions are intermixed with everything else from romantic love, race, religion, sex and (more than once) Game of Thrones!

Overall this is a strong, diverse collection that I recommend to fans of modern poetry. The inclusion of a few poems written in her childhood is a fun bonus from the author at the end.

If you read my poetry

If you read my poetry
If you heard my songs
you would understand me a lot better
than if we stood
face to face
side by side
shoulder to shoulder
you would see the cracks
in a mask so carefully built
sealed to protect a fragile heart
from tumbling down the cliff
draining a frothy waterfall
welled up a leaky dam
that mooches up and down streets
slumped into rounded shadows.

– Zarina Macha, Art is a Waste of Time

Review by Steph Warren of Bookshine and Readbows blog
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