I Named The Moon After You by Luke Moon

This was a beautiful poetry book detailing how someone's presence can bring light and a glow into your life. How in the joy of growing closer and falling, your guard drops and little moments of sharing touch or looks can feel magical in being someone's chosen special person in time. Evolving into every day little actions and attention to details, a truly beautiful poetry collection capturing the alluring emotions of love.

Letter To My Ex by JE Roberts

This collection was literally as the title said and speaks directly from the author to her ex and details all the emotions in the aftermath of a break up of a relationship spanning a decade. Some powerful poems of this collection to me were: Happiness You Deserve, is a poem many of us can relate to about an ex moving on. Sitting In This Room, feeling the gap between you and your love building rather than feeling closer together. About Him, the way love can become feeling like acting or speaking toxic from hurt and the way they can leave so easily. Choose, about chosing your kid over an uncommiting man, for the sake of the stability and love your child needs more than a man. A powerful collection about how being alone and putting your children first can be empowering facing someone unwilling to commit and accept all the parts of your life like you did for them.

Bullycide by Rachel Louise Finn

This poetry collection focuses on the subject of bullying and suicide hence the title. The collection tells many devastating stories of lives lost due to suicide and how bullying as a child can affect you for you whole life. I personally felt compelled to read this and related hard to a lot of the poems and emotions felt really hit with me after being bullied growing up, it's tough how it echoes through your life and trusting others still doesn't come easy, I know for me too I had suicidal thoughts and often saw no escape from it, teachers unwilling to help or knowing what to do to stop it. The poems honour the young children who lost their lives in various ways as well as those of us coping with scars years on. A really sad but necessary read that schools should use to educate how bullying can lead to such tragedy.

Dusk: poetry that bites into the human soul By R.D. Eveleigh

This was a darker themed poetry collection ideal reading for around Halloween as it explores every day issues inspired by the darkness and mythical ideas colliding like fantastical poetry about vampires. Some stand out poems to me were: Insomnia, about the restless effort to try get to sleep. Imposter, about being forced to grow up soon alike the vampire frozen in time constantly living with memories. A delicious dark poetry collection mixing life and myth beautifully.

Thought Garden Poetry by Stacey Nicole Douglas

This collection of poetry contained very short verse poems about being so in love with someone even when you split they play on your mind like a song on repeat. How going back wouldn't be right when the feels weren't fully reciprocated enough and shown in caring actions, that walking away will heal you and mourning the loss of a person like they died, yet they left your life not the world, by choice. A particular poem about Ghosting rang very true about the joy of them acknowledging you again but it's too late to feel respected and another how wisdom comes with age versus youth, touching on many truths we come to realise and learn growing up. It was a great book with a mix of fonts, text type and illustrations to keep the flow intriguing as to what you would come across next too.

Texts I'll Never Send by Stacey Nicole Douglas

This book tells how a relationship can sour when effort is only coming from you and not reciprocated by the other person too. Talking of how you can be present, showing up when you get the bare minimum back to you. I love the dear you letters addressed to her ex could be love and the vulnerable side we see sharing this must have been deeply moving to do. I related so bad to this book. How liking a guy a couple years younger, how music can unite you, grow closer and how slowly them pulling away, helps you heal in time with writing your feelings and not sending messages too again, very true and relatable collection.

Heartbreak Royalty by Havilah Mae

This was a poetic look at life as a relationship leaves trauma from a connection being less than loving and adoring instead the reflection looking back over the relationship showing the negatives over the positives and how it can leave you wondering and questioning why. A delicate collection of poetry of the ways control and emotional abuse from a partner can linger.

Fractures: Poems of Breaking by Evelyn Valehart

This poetry collection focussed on trauma, grief/loss and how you can find yourself feeling dealing in the aftermath of life. Some fantastic poems of this collection to me were: A Language Without Sound, about how actions speak more than words can. Between My Ribs and the Rain, a beautiful rhyming poem about where ache remains of pain as it lingers affecting you. The Body Keeps Its Secrets, how when memories in the brain fade, touch can remind you and still trigger you of the past. The Body Remembers Before the Mind, almost descriptive of triggers to trauma your mind can bury to try protect you from feeling. How Silence Cuts, about the pain of losing someone and it being finite. A lot of deeply moving poetry and definitely one of the best I've read relating to trauma and loss.

The Little Book Of Grief by Sadie Green

The book is tiny but mighty the weight of emotions heavy in these short poems showing how grief accompanies you in daily life from items they used daily to one's left in their place awaiting a return never to be, a beautiful collection capturing the way grief lives alongside you after loss.

Define Me Divine Me by Phoebe Garnsworthy

This was a brilliant poetry collection about life in general and all the feelings that make us simply human. Some stand out poems to me were: Boundaries, was a simple poem of how giving is beautiful but when you give always to no return to keep yourself safe with boundaries and respect as a basic to receive. Against, Foolish and Confrontation, were all poems about feeling the relationship and love changing for the worse but falling anyway even if they think you're too much for them. Fencing, about protecting yourself not fighting to feel safe and chosen by another. Fighter, about being you despite people trying to tear you apart and change you. Saviour & Teacher were two poems about feeling broken and realising you are enough as you are. Loneliness, about books being a way to escape from feelings and find comfort and escape when needed. It was a collection that touches deeply on parts of life that can feel heavy from love and loss, to loneliness and never feeling good enough.