After We Got Disconnected by Devith

This was a beautiful tender collection of poetry how after your beloved moves on you are left reeling in deep emotions and feelings. The poems discuss how the body reacts, how everything feels drained and colourless and you feel broken it was a simple, short collection capturing the affect of a break up effortlessly well.

My Battle With The Enemy by Issa Marie

TW, mentions of sexual assault and Rape. This poetry collection has some deep poems about Issa's life and tough times faced I know many of us will relate to. She Is Breaking, about faking feeling fine when you are inside collapsing. A Mile In Ours, about shared pain how we all cry, we all hurt, we all ache, just in different ways. Daddy's Girl, a poem I found relatabe of feeling the one man supposed to care the most didn't care at all. I love when a book includes a playlist as well to soundtrack the story, wirh the hard topic of rape and sexual assault, the song Grave by Avery Anna for me came to mind as one I'd add to that too. The final part of the book details Issa's story and I'm so glad to hear life has been kinder after such hard and dark times to endure in younger years.

The Weight Of Memory by Ava Winters

This was a tender collection of poetry about the feelings of being left behind and discarded by the one you loved the most. Some stand out poems to me were: Just An Option and The Void They Left, how you can feel broken and doubt everything after they can leave you so easily. Unkept Promises, of being let down by broken promises and chances again and again. Unconscious Betrayal, the ultimate breaking of trust by such a cold act and the repercussions leaving you questioning them as the character in your life story they were. Some really hard hitting poems about betrayal of trust, losing someone you love by them being cruel and cold, how you struggle to cope in the aftermath and how healing in time can still leave doubts. A devastating collection about loss and trust.

The Fall Of Days by Kristin Knight

As autumn has fully arrived now I found this poetry collection and was pulled to read it as the seasons change and embrace it. Life, a beautiful poem about how rainy, stormy weather can mimic our moods as humans and we can't always be bright happy and sunshine. Once Upon A Time, a powerful poem of seeking answers to be insulted by how time changes everything. A beautiful collection of evocative poetry around life changing like seasons.

All The Bridges I Could Not Burn by Autumn Graves

This was a great collection of poetry looking at the breakup of a couple and feelings towards the end of that relationship and the impact it has. Breaking Points, how as good a relationship is it all falls apart and you're left feeling hurt in the aftermath of it all. The Things I Lost Trying To Keep You, from basic yet essential things, like sleep to deeper core values and feelings. The Last Bridge, about being strong enough to leave and not go back, ever. Aftermath, again following a breakup and just surviving the ensuing silence or emptiness around you after it ends. This poetry collection will definitely have some relatable points to you if you're dealing or have dealt with losing someone you love in any way.

All The Ways I Love by Autumn Graves

This collection details all the thoughts and feelings you can experience growing up feeling you're wrong from others judgements being cast onto or directed towards you. A few stand out poems to me were, Middle Ground, detailing how people can try to judge you one way or the other. Trying to label you like in the poem, Coming Out, again, how you have to sometimes have to explain your sexuality multiple times to people over and over again trying to justify why you feel how you do. They Ask For Proof, an open look at how people will question how for sure you are knowing how you identify how you say not seeing that being alive and feeling is actually enough. Choosing Me, Every Time, was a great companion poem to the latter above, showing how every time chosing yourself, is pleasing yourself as people come and go whereas you're stuck with yourself for life. It was a great in depth collection looking fully at the cycle of crushes, loving, learning and accepting who you are despite what others may think.

The Heart's Quiet by Jovienne Rose

This poetry collection focuses on a relationship or friendship formed through the gym as many people in life especially these days meet that way. Some stand out poems to me were: Silent Gravity, about the pull of being in someone's orbit you feel drawn to. Shared Silence and The Strength In Silence, how you can hold space and love for someone and never cross the line and blur friendship into love. It is a collection I feel many of us will relate to heavily, how you can form many bonds in the place of a gym where you all are hoping to make progress in multiple ways of life at the same time, making friends, forming relationships, healing your mental or physical health.

The Unbearable Weight Of Remembering by Soraya

This was a poetic telling of a relationship falling apart through infidelity. A tough subject but all too relatable especially as teens I feel as this book focuses on now in love and also flashes forward to predict how the future could've played out turning a blind eye, yet, as the title says, it is unbearable to ignore, weighing you down. It was a book to make you reflect on life and find inspiration in yourself to look after and discover who you are.

She Drinks In The Morning Now by Autumn Graves

This was a hard hitting collection of poetry which Autumn bravely and very openly discusses growing up in an alcoholic and abusive household where her and her siblings were sadly not treated properly and details how as their parents aged, they forgot the trauma they caused their children as well as how they then had to be cared for by the only child, Autumn, left with that burden solely on her shoulders despite the years she endured, it was a very brave collection of poetry to find the strength to share it is very bold and brave indeed and I know so many others will understand Autumn's emotion story too. A couple of stand out poems to me were: Inventory, a poem about the alcohol seeming more important than the children in a household growing up, to the point the children know what it is too and how mum needs it to cope. Photograph, a poem about seeing beyond the face value of a seemingly happy family portrait, just seeing instead her dad's abuse which led to the siblings around her leaving and her mother's drinking to worsen in time. A bold collection of poetry that will leave you reflecting on your life growing up especially and appreciating what you had or feeling what you lacked when you needed it.

The Moon Doesn't Know You're Gone by Autumn Graves

This book of poetry was great at showing how grief can linger in your life after loss. Some really great and relatable poems I found in this collection were: A Grief Like This, falling apart in quiet normal life moments. When I Dream Of You, trying to still be able to reach them, even if you can't now physically. The Sound Of Your Name, how people can stop reacting to hearing the name of your beloved person after they've gone whereas to you it's still heartbreaking to hear someone say their name. The Grocery Store, how suddenly seeing items they loved and you'd buy can be a sad emotional trigger even in public, tears can come. The Quiet Things, how items around the house of theirs remain like they could walk back in at any moment. The title too, I really love, the moon a witness only to the night-time when we can feel deeply and be seen then by it sometimes immersed in the sadness we feel deeply.