The baby did not look like my father at all, But there was a resemblance: Our slight awkwardness with each other Style Sullivan used many styles of writing including prose poetry and free verse in both contemporary and modern forms. The first poem consists of rhymes and half rhymes, but the poem in a whole is very versatile in style. While the collection has a number of rhymes and short lines, there is not a set style that used throughout. Sullivan told the Los Angeles Review of Books that, while she was brainstorming, she thought to herself, “Maybe I’ll try and write something in rhyming couplets.” She said, "Once you start writing in rhyming couplets, a different tone of voice comes in". Criticism Roger Cox from The Scotsman stated, "The opening section of the first of these poems, 'You, Very Young in New York', is one of the most aesthetically pleasing things I have read in a long time". Lavinia Greenlaw from London Review of Books stated, "Three Poems has an aerated extravagance that brings to mind Wallace Stevens’s ‘Parfait Martinique: coffee mousse, rum on top, a little cream on top of that". Paul Batchelor, in a review in New Statesman, described the collection as "a richly rewarding collection that shows all the confidence and skill of a poet writing in their prime". References 2018 poetry books British poetry collections T. S. Eliot Prize-winning works Faber and Faber books