I Wish You Never Left: A Collection of Sad Love Poems for Broken Hearts and Healing Souls by Yogesh Chandra

This poetry collection is set a year and six months on after a break up, hence the title and two poems really stood out to me: The Weight Of Silence, how it can feel like a funeral when someone just ghosts you and falls silent. If We Hadn't Met, was such a beautiful nostalgic poem inspired by nature and all about the way life can be beautiful but is enhanced by feelings and emotions. A beautiful reflective collection in the aftermath of break up pain.

12 Steps Of Letting You Go by Stacey Nicole Douglas

This collection reads like poetic essays all about the ways loving someone as much as you do can be painful when not reciprocated despite a great friendship or relationship. 47, Putting On A Show, is extremely relatable at feeling you're playing or have played a tole the other wouldn't equal to you in sadly. The poem written to play on a twelve step plan, in this case creating one for accepting the end and moving on of a relationship was a great use of the twelve step concept in a new way and situation. Another great collection in the Thought Garden series.

A Catch-22 by Lana M Rochel

A short but sweet story about love knowing no boundaries written in poetic form, a joy of a story to read and a true one too which make sit all the more beautiful that love can form no matter the distance and flourish.

Defeating Cancer One Poem A Day by Owen Watson

This was such an inspiring book, for anyone dealing with any illness let alone cancer one of the worst illnesses to face and feel the fear of dealing with 'Always give your best, right now, right here!' A poem a day providing lots of positive thoughts all about embracing the time you have illness or not and doing ehat you want to in the time you have

The Dirty Secret Of A Poet by Sam Solomon

This was a really deep collection of poetry about how love, lust and desire can all collide in quite a connection! Simply titled, Love, was a tender poem questioning what feeling is love questioning is it born from lust or nurtured through trust and respect over time of a relationship growing and developing. Exquisite Taste was a really playful poem about how lust and love ignites into desire to be close, I'll let you imagine or read the book to figure that! I will say it's definitely not a collection for younger readers if not absolutely obvious anyway! However, for us older readers, I found myself totally getting how a relationship can go full circle, from hesitant first attraction, growing closer, forming trust etc, it was a great collection and especially to read a collection from a guy too when often they can bury feelings this was fantastic and really open and articulate, well done Sam!

Milk and Brexit: Poetry of the Public by Idiocratea

This poetry collection will absolutely guaranteed make you laugh with many nods to British culture and people's honest thoughts of waiting for Brexit to possibly happen until it did and then the actions taken to actually happen. There was lots of really good puns related to Brexit, the EU, England and various food jokes too. A short and sweet collection of jokes and poetry, verses which makes me realise how Brexit was seen as a joke by many especially for the time it dragged on in the end too!

Compulsive by M. M. Crusinberry

This collection details the nature of the thoughts beyond the stereotype of being all about cleaning, but the way the thoughts become rituals of routine to complete to feel some kind of peace of mind and feel at ease that nothing bad will happen if you do something enough as your mind tells you. A great short collection talking openly of all the ways the compulsions can claim so much of your life.

In Another Galaxy by Stacey Nicole Douglas

This poetry collection focuses on the pain of limerence and a situationship and unrequited feelings and the way it can leave you feeling. I really appreciated how the collection discussed how music can help heal the ache and feel less alone, very relatable. The final poem of the collection was a clever look at the Disney princesses and their stories having tragedy woven in instead of being simple happy love stories too.

Conversations I Replayed Too Many Times: Poems About Overthinking, Regret, and the Things We Never Said by Unsaid Lines

This poetry collection reads as an almost autopsy poetically on reflection of when and how a relationship changed and ultimately fell apart. From questioning, overthinking conversations, thinking of different versions and ways of the conversation going that could've been it was a fantastic poetry debut showing the resilience of us when experiencing a break up.

He Loved Me Once by Mary Kay Cunningham

This poetry collection focuses on the aftermath of an abusive relationship and the way you can feel trapped literally in a relationship and controlled. Some stand out poems to me of this collection were: Rotted, about the way you can feel rotten from within by them taking your sweetness for granted and using you. Give It All Back, was again, such a relatable poem about the way that we can waste time on the wrong person and after everything we just wish we had the precious time back to spend more wisely. Tell Someone and So We Stay, are two poems about the ways we are blinded by loving someone, we remain with them even when they hurt us. The Ache Of Staying, how the pain of memories can remain and stain your mind. Do You Remember? Was such a great poem about all the questions that you can be left with and wondering constantly about. Security, was a beautiful poem about how life should feel like alike the poem Existing In The Quiet, about how you feel so secure and at peace in safety with the one you love. A collection about deep hurt and the aftermath of a relationship to find acceptance and healing after it sours.