Running Ink

by Coralline Ethier

Flowers in running shoes, lines creasing on faces, running ink on pages. Ends that tie together like shoelaces, new beginnings, going through all these changes. Nostalgia, doubts, curiousness, love, happiness. Awakened from a dream, restless and ripening. Inspiration found in the little things. A token, a memory, a souvenir. Don’t we all want to create something to remember us by before we disappear? People with who to share our hopes and fears. Yesterday you were built anew and the sky was clear. But overnight you grew and now there’s more to write. The wind blew grey clouds to the sky and made you see things in black and white. But if you run just fast enough you’ll reach the cliffside just in time. At sundown clouds of white will turn coral in the sky.

Coralline Ethier is a soon-to-be twenty-year-old part-time poet and university student. When she is not writing, she enjoys music (especially by Taylor Swift), cooking with a glass of wine, hikes, photography and going running. This is her second poetry book.

IG: @sweeeet_coralline

209 pages, Paperback

Published June 18, 2021

About the author

"It's like I got this music in my mind sayin' it's gonna be alright"

Reviews

[Marta · Rating 5 out of 5]

Coralline has grown as a poet with her sophomore poetry collection Running Ink. The poems were lyrical and raw and cut you to the core. She left no surface untouched and cracked herself open to the world so is readers could feel less alone in our thoughts and feelings. I deeply related to the first two sections of her book and hope to one day relate to the last two. It was an amazing read

[Kétura · Rating 5 out of 5]

I read Coralline's first poetry book and I was pleasantly surprised. I am not a fan of poetry, but her book make covinced me to stop by the poetry section of my local library, once in a while. I was pretty excited to read her second book and I was not disappointed.

Although both books barely have a year difference, the style of Coralline has clearly evolved and his way more mature. The book starts slowly with soft and lights poems, and transition into more emotionnally charged poems with more depths.

Coralline added some French poems, used cultural references, doodles and discussed how the pandemic impacted her early 20's without ever mentionning the dreadred word "pandemic."

I really enjoyed "Running Ink" and I do recommend it, even if you don't like poetry !

[Shiana Tyler · Rating 5 out of 5]

Beautiful, thoughtful, and relatable. I don’t like poetry, but man am I glad I decided to crack this because I can now say I do like poetry. I just hadn’t read the right poetry yet.