Maz's example is all wet! Just show us the poems? Please. That is publishing the poems, not reviewing them.
I want the reviewer to give me his or her experience. That's the best a review can give. And what reviewer can presume to tell another reader "objectively" what they are likely to like and not like--much less any and all readers that reads the review?
Art is about subjective objectivity. We are all reading the same poem, looking at the same picture or dance, and we get a simultaneous shared and individual experience. The reviewer has to address that without shying from the subjective. The subjective part is the most interesting, given that we are already sharing the objective part.
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