![]() ![]() ![]() Topping Amazon US’s poetry book charts ahead of works including Claudia Rankine’s award-winning Citizen and Seamus Heaney’s translation of Beowulf, Kaur says that Milk and Honey “takes readers through a journey of the most bitter moments in life and finds sweetness in them because there is sweetness everywhere if you are just willing to look”. “We have sold over half a million copies and are currently in our 16th printing.” Melville added that on average, a strong-selling poetry book would sell less than 30,000 copies a year. “We thought it would sell well, but the momentum of sales that took off in March this year was very exciting, especially when the book hit the New York Times bestseller list,” said publisher and president Kirsty Melville. ![]() It went on to top charts in North America and was snapped up by Andrews McMeel Publishing, which released its own edition in October that year. Known as an Instapoet for the traction she gains online with her poetry that deals with violence, abuse and femininity, the collection was first self-published almost two years ago, in November 2014. ![]()
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