Quiet : Poetry for the Ones Who Sit with Silence by Jupiter M. Moon

This was a beautiful collection looking at everyday life moment's and the movement's and feelings they evoke. Some stand out poems to me were: One Text, about chance and the way it can be fleeting, opening or closing a chapter of life. Winter's Touch, about the way a snowflake can feel as tender as human touch. As The Petal Flies, was a whimsical poem of the beautiful fragility of an unending path where the future is invisible and unpredictable just like flowers shed petals falling into new parts of their life alike we fall and rise too. A metaphor rich collection focusing on the beauty the natural world provides and the way it mirrors the human experience too at times.

Please Look into the Mirror by Michaela Angemeer

This was a great poetry collection, especially from using the way glass and mirror's are reflective surfaces and they way we can observe ourselves through or in them and the way we can see ourselves in distorted ways through our own skewed perceptions or through the environment we grew up in and judgement we faced. I also loved the ending poem and talk about Bea, their dog and how pets can provide joy and light through the darkest of times and help you see the beauty around you and within you too, another mirror, a loving one of you.

Whispers That Stayed by T.Euke

This book was beautiful in talking about the way those that pass remain, the way thing's they said can linger in our thoughts and thing's we see happening around us can cause us to be reminded of them and believe they're signs of them still being with us in a way that they stay with us forever in small ways shaping us as we live on always remembering.

Her Hands Remember Fire: Poems on Healing, Survival, and Becoming by Adisa Noor

This was such an emotionally rich collection of poetry that I found so many relatable including: Healing Is Not Pretty, a poem about how losing people and wounds of the past can linger and make you find your strength and resilience to carry on and protect your peace. The Art Of Stillness, a beautiful poem about the simplicity of just being and not feeling the pressure of constantly needing to be on and doing something draining yourself all the time. Naming Joy, about the feeling of joy and letting it be allowed to happen after putting others before yourself. The Woman I Am Now, was a fantastic poem of empowerment and the way finding peace and silence that comforts you over making you feel lonely. The Language Of Light, was a poem about the beauty and grace light can provide whether natural or artificial and the comfort surrendering you to calm and hope in the hue. It was truly a beautiful well rounded collection of moments drawing emotion in mundane often overlooked situations.

The Darkness Within: An Emotional Poetry Collection of healing from Childhood Abuse by Becky Leigh Gregg

This poetry collection really delves into the deepness of our own individual experiences as humans. Some stand out poems to me were: It Could Have Been Worse, how such a simple phrase can diminish someone's feelings about their pain. The Moon, about the way the moon can be a guard and beauty of nature in the night a comforting presence Are You, was a poem of how you can want to question anyone not helping but still witnessing someone going through an incredibly tough and low time and just stand by and not get involved. This collection is not only a vulnerable honest read, it also shows how simple kindness could change someone's life and experience for the better if we all dare to be more compassionate and kind.

When The Soul Learns To Bloom by Pratima Baro

This collection really leans in to finding the every day beauty in the nature of the world around us ever changing even simply day to night and how love and grief can make us see the world in an altered state to appreciate pain for loving deeply and finding a way to cope and find hope again.

The Words I Could Never Say by Yogesh Chandra

This poetry collection perfectly sums up how you can struggle to be seen for the depths of your emotions are drowning and unending it feels like when no one else can understand why or how you feel the way you do, perfectly fitting the title indeed this collection was.

Whispers for the Unchosen Heart: Between Almosts by T.Euke

This poetry collection talks of the almost and maybe moments, the myth of being chosen or treated as an option, the ache at night of feeling alone with just restless thoughts and questions of why not you in the situation you're in. The repetition of almost over the certainty and the expectations of life that pass by silently avoiding you and the norm life path, so you see the contrast of the pain of being unchosen in thoughts and feelings honestly discussed.

Sad poems for sad girls: A mental struggle by Tierra Ikell

This poetry collection is like having a friend telling you all the tiny things to appreciate in each day to help you feel boosted and brighter from simply enjoying the sun, to appreciating yourself and who you are, each layer of yourself, ones you love, ones you hate that all make us the beautiful messy humans we are.

Unraveling Soulties by Stacey Nicole Douglas

This book was a deeply personal reflection on the cutting relationship told through poetry and a timeline of month's and moment's retold showing the connection and the way it altered and effected them deeply and the limgering effects from being so deep in like with someone and how it can leave you feeling attached still despite trying to come apart from what you were with them.

Whispers: that didn't leave by T.Euke

This was a great book touching on the stillness that settles in life and the closure that is ongoing in feelings that stay in the quiet surrounding us daily and how people, however brief a conversation is, can shape the moment and your life and the impact a few words can have on you as you continue in life word's can echo and remain carried with you.

Based On You by Arisa Hart

This poetry collection focuses on all the ways we can feel love from different people and situations. October and Eager, were two poems on how loving someone can feel powerful. Guts, was an honest poem about loving someone who only lies to you. Mother, was a poem of a mother talking and hoping for her daughter to never feel the weight of comparison like she did growing up. Happy Genes, was a phenomenal poem about everyone having a differing vision of beauty to them and as a white British girl with family around the world with various mixed ethnicities, skin tones, hair types and nationalities is such a relatable poem how every girl and guy has a differing experience in life, good or bad and how we should all just be kind to each other and embrace the beauty of us all being so different. A beautiful collection of poetry especially on loving our differences more in a world that can feel so narrow-minded or superficial sometimes.

Wildflower by SaDee Hodge

This new poetry collection from SaDee discusses her life from the metaphor of being a wildflower in a world of seemingly perfect flowers and how life isn't always beautiful on the surface but can eventually deeply be seen so. Some stand out poems to me from this collection were: Sapphire, about pet loss, was utterly heartbreaking and so relatable as a rabbit owner myself, losing them over the rainbow bridge cuts every time especially after ten years with a rabbit who was more like a puppy following you around and SaDee losing her cat Sapphire, every pet loss cuts as deep as a human loss to me and it's so important we talk more openly about the loss of such a companion that provides love and support. To The You I'll Never Know, was again a heartbreaking and relatable poem to anyone who's faced abortion or even miscarriage and the way it alters your life forever as you can become a mum just not the way everyone perceives a mum to be as your baby isn't physically here with you in your arms it's a whole new depth of grief full of endless questions and SaDee captures the mixture of feelings, emotions and questions we can wonder on perfectly. Supply, was a poem all about the way poetry can be addictive and get you hooked on reading and writing it and it's a healthier option to have a supply of. Wildflower, the final poem of the collection and the title poem, talks of growing on and through everything and craving a change of scenery around you and honestly from past experience too, I got a new job away from the area I knew and had bad memories in and that step in itself felt freeing, empowering and like a whole new chance to embrace change for the better. We should all be more of a wildflower, embrace our beauty and worth in our space and adapt and grow through all life throws us.

The Journey Of Love by Becky Leigh Gregg

This poetry collection, as per the title, shows a journey of love of all kinds, from self love, to romantic love, familial love and the ways each experience shaoes you in a positive or negative way. Some stand out poems of this collection were: Intentions, was a beautiful poem on human care in the face of tragedy and how someone's true nature shines in the darkest of times. Antidote, was a beautiful poem about how the right love will heal you from past hurt you've survived. My Body, was such an empowering poem about self love after abuse and escaping a toxic relationship and realising you should embrace who you are unapologetically, always. Hurt Again, was a powerful poem in the aftermath of divorce about how tiring dating apps can be to try. Empty Nest, was an utterly relatable poem to the pain of gynaecology or endocrinology meetings and appointments of which I could relate when you're told you may not or cannot have children and the shift that occurs in your life from that moment onwards. This collection is one that will definitely make you think deeply and reflect on your life and choices and the impact they have had throughout it too.

Losing to Anorexia: a poetry collection by Adela Lily

This poetry collection as per the title and trigger warning, is about anorexia and also applies to eating disorders and weight loss in general too talking in depth of the feelings you can experience. The collection is deeply moving in discussing how words can harm our view of ourself and our worth and the physical effects of an eating disorder taking hold of you, altering you and how your mind can see you in a warped view as you lose more weight, more of yourself and the cycle of it never being enough and becoming a spiral.

Negligence, Abuse & Rage: a collection of poetry and prose (Silent Battles Book 1) by Adela Lily

This poetry collection tells of the way being brpught up in an abusive and unsupportive household can effect you from childhood into the estbof your life and thr after effects that remain. It was a deeply moving collection and the depth of honesty sharing such pieces of poetic writing to tell her story is incredible and a great way to not only show resilience to not let it define you but to use it as a way to raise awareness of domestic abuse and violence children can face and the way it can lead into self worth issues and eating disorders from the lack of control over life situations you can face.

Solidarity: Finding solidarity in heartbreak, anxiety & depression by Lynn Moore

This collection spoke of solidarity in recognising pain we can experience through life and the experience's it serves us. Some stand out poems to me were: Cinderella Complex, how girl's are taught to strive for the ideal relationship and guy, not their own happiness and career. Shattered and Seamstress were all about how you can break and heal after a relationship falling apart and rebuild yourself stronger. Can I Please Be Her? A poem all about comparison against others seeing their beauty seemingly easily and not your own. Warning Signs, about seeing yourself in a girl looking so happy, blissfully unaware how it could change in a few words spoken. Rewrite The Story, about how women should chase their own dreams, want a partner but not believe solely in the guy will come and save you fairytale. This is a collection to get you thinking, reflecting and thinking back on your life whilst also being a collection in solidarity with you to show how we can all struggle with similar thought's and feelings.

Singularity: The universal language of love and loss by Lynn Moore

This poetry collection focuses on the feeling of being single and how we share in similar feelings and how upon reflection a relationship costs us sometimes when writing, pieces of ourselves. Some stand out poems to me were: Habitually Late, about feeling yourself playing catch up to others your own age in life. Self-esteem, about how you see yourself after a break up of a relationship to realise how you've changed. What You Don't See, was a powerful poem about how anxiety can manifest and make you relive moment's over and over making you doubt yourself, thing's you do and say. Writer, was such a relatable poem about coping with life from writing poetry and processing your feelings to empty your mind of everything and how it's just natural to you. Multiverse, was a reflective poem that gets you thinking of how every choice you make in life could've led you to another path and future, another version of you different to you now and how you can endlessly wonder what if? This was a great collection of reflective poems that will be sure to get you thinking.

Closure by Valeria Abelli

This poetry collection flows in lyrical prose and snippets of a relationship revealed as it falls apart, doubt's that appear and actions that leave you questioning the truth of the relationship. Unspoken Truths, about how friends become lovers then return to strangers in an odd cycle from openness to vulnerability to unity to severing ties was beautifully heartbreaking in the way it was written. Where Were You Going, was again, really relatable as my ex too had a red car and my stomach too drops seeing one still and wondering if he chooses her now still after losing me and the endless cycle of questions a simple trigger can remind you of. It was a beautiful collection of poetry that gets you thinking, inspired and reflecting on your own experience in relationships too as well as the fun of continuing on the lines as well feeling inspired to finish the poem or song from the sentences proffered.

Hard Pills to Swallow (Thought Garden Poetry) by Stacey Nicole Douglas

This poetry collection was another great one by Stacey who writes such relatable poetry and if you've ever dealt with a one sided relationship, limerence and the pain of loving someone who doesn't seem to care as much about you back this poetry collection from her will be one you relate to and resonate with.

What I Meant Was This Isn’t Closure by T.Euke

This books reads like a collection of poetic observations in how life changes on reflection, how healing through living beyond past hurt and the boundaries that protected us allow us to thrive alone upon reflection we realise our resilience and how moments and words shaped us and our view on a situation we experienced in how days and conversations flow like no time has passed in a routine life living on inevitably way. I also love the title because every ending is a beginning in my view and the closure is just you continuing on in life and putting yourself first this time as tough as it can feel to do.

Wish Upon A Dandelion by C Swart

This poetry collection has such a tender title but such strength in the words of poetry it contains. Some stand out poems to me were: Creatives, about how creative people pick everything apart in everyday life unable to stop doing so as it's natural and expressing feelings through art. Lifetimes, about our lifetime's being a collection of moments that make us during our lifetime as we live amongst others lifetime's too. I Am A Collection Of, was a beautiful reflective poem about how we are made up of the moments and memories made we and live through. Comfortable In The Dark, was a really relatable poem about how at night you can feel at peace and comforted by the darkness and anonymity the nighttime world can provide. Worthy, was a poem about how caring for others is easy to do so. Just A Kiss, was a poem all about the beauty of romantic connection, the anticipation and the participation of two people just figuring out their spark of feelings. This was a lovely well rounded collection touching upon the most deep and tender parts of human connection and what we can wish for to experience, a great loop back into the meaning of the title again.