Meaning of notebookish | Babel Free

Definitions

Characteristic of jottings in a notebook, rather than a finished artistic work.

Examples

“In some of the poems which discuss her predicament openly, the writing goes flat and notebookish.”

“So it's not merely that Ioannou is using notebookish, intellectually inert, ashen-phrased poems to secure her insights about poetry; she's also using the face-value ideas of prosody to launder mediocre Canadian poetry into art.”

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