Eternity Between Us by Katherine Nandita

This poetry collection was written in a classical style that flowed with lots of ethereal and natural imagery that touched upon the beauty of the love we hold and have the ability to grow and nurture. From requited and powerful love to the simmering endurance of unrequited admiration and adoration too, it was a collection that flowed like reading multiple stories about love in various ways existing.

Loving Him Is Heaven & Hell by Madison Meadows

This was a great collection of poems about all the happy and sad ways a relationship can cause you to feel. Some stand out poems to me were: The Closed Door, about the pain hiding behind a shut door, unknowing what emotional state awaits you, turbulent or loving. A Bad Habit, about the pain from hoping and facing unrequited feelings, lust or love and how it's hard to break through feeling how you do. The Art From Heartbreak, literally playing into even creating the poetry collection from heartbreak and how from the relationship dying art can grow and something positive can come from your heart being broken. Support, the final poem, about regaining independence and learning yourself again after a relationship ends was an empowering poem to read and relate to. A collection that captures the happy and sad times of falling in and out of love.

The Big Black Dog by Lesley Scott

This poetry collection focuses on the dark times of life and struggles with depression and mental health and grief. Some stand out poems to me were: Eyes Closed and Haunted, about the way a love can leave you, how it can really linger and effect you deeply even as time continues on. Tree Of Me, was a beautiful poem alikening us and our growth to the life and strength of a tree. This was a great collection that captures the pain and hope at the same time from various life situations.

Gym Junky by Brentom Jackson

This was a fantastic verse poetry style written story about the dangers of steroid use in young men and boys especially. Showing how in the social media age we live in and how it can pressure young guys to view themselves and others in an unhealthy way wanting to be seen as 'bigger' or more 'manly' and muscular. The story developed flowing excepionally well, touching on health, relationships and friendships and feelings of feeling inadequate to others older and the danger on mental and physical health of bulking and steroid use and pushing your body into unhealthy habits from outside pressure not of focusing on what makes you happy deep inside. The book also had plenty of shocking twists and turns along the way and the title was a clever play on words too. An eye opening read on the complex dangers of steroid use and eating/training disorders that can effect men and women equally.

The Girl I Used To Be: Poems on Healing, Worthiness, and Becoming by BreAnn Manuel

This poetry collection was very short and reads as a poetic monologue of truths laid out bare, raw and unfiltered about the negatives that relationships can bring and lessons from them that can shape you in the future. A real and true collection of life as you grow up through the poems penned and shared.

A Violet Rose, Bloomed in the Winter: Poetry for the heartbroken by Cristian Solís

This poetry collection was incredibly moving capturing all the various emotions stemming from a relationship once so strong breaking up. A stand out poem of the collection to me was, Love Is Like An Orchard, playing into bruising and rotting as pain alikening human life to fruit life and the battles we can face. The final sentence and author's note were a lovely lingering tone to end on of hopeful positivity and the lingering appreciation for a person who's made you feel so much.

You Don't Have To Be Normal You Just Have To Be Here by Hans Sinob

This poetry collection is born from the depths of dealing with bipolar, the highs and lows it brings you like a sometimes positive gift or an unwanted gift depending on the impact in the moment. Touching on dark and light moments in life, this book definitely gets you thinking on how our differences make us truly who we are.

Fading Into Bloom by Cheryl Haynes

This poetry collection focuses on the impact types of dementia can have on your loved one's and in this case the author's mother and captures the ways in which she can remember yet still be slowly fading at the same time. The book really captures the juxtaposition the condition can give with up's and down's the condition delivers over months in experience of observing and being witness to the sad changes dealt to have to face.

I Am Learning To Love Me: Story and Poetry Book by Aradhya Sharma

This poetry collection talks of the pain of heartbreak and the aftermath you are left with to adapt, rebuild and become yourself again by treating yourself with soft care and healthy boundaries. The book also has a section of Dear Me letters and affirmations, a series of self belief and self love encouragement pieces to end on and be left to sit with and reflect which was such a lovely way to make us reflect.

For Those Who Stayed by Thomas Veins

This was a beautiful collection of poetry about appreciation for moments in life that lead people to come in to your life and leave you with a lasting impression. Some stand out poems to me were: If You Want To Write, a simple poem about as it says quite literally if you want to write and to actually do so and get inspired. Almost Zero, about the chances of each of us being here by generations of choices made making our lives all collide now. Snowdrop, was a beautiful poem alikening the strength of a flower to grow through a harsh winter to the strength in life some people willingly take on their shoulders. You Should Be Here, about moments amplifying missing someone, even the mundane everyday ones, especially those. Loving A Writer, about the depth and the different lenses that anyone who writes sees through, reading people and scenario's and situations in multiple ways compared to others. It was a great collection of poems about various people and situations we encounter in life and showing appreciation for all they have given us.