Kink by T.L. MacRae

A bold and open book discussing sex and sexual reclamation after abuse and rape survival and challenging the stereotypes sex as we age too. Love, was the deepest feeling poem to me of the collection easily, raw and honest perfectly encapsulating how a loving relationship and sexual relationship should be like.

When They Met by Luckkk K

This was a really short collection of poetry detailing how falling in love is hard, to keep trying and saying goodbye, can be too easy to do especially for fear or feeling scared of being hurt, a relatable collection of poetry for anyone who's been in love or lost love, even unrequited love, a really relatable read.

Where Time Stands Still: Poems of Secret Love and Timeless Longing by Alex Harlem

This was a beautiful poetry collection about the slow lust and desire becoming love and I honestly can't pick any stand out poems because the whole collection flowed in a poetic story like way from both his and her perspectives of falling.

Whispers In The Dark by Rosalie Johnson

This was a great atmospheric poetry collection, with emotive language around dolls, floorboards, staircases, fog, mist, graves, funerals, creepy phone lines, mirrors, clocks, candles, shadows, sounds etc. It was an atmospheric like poetry collection in a haunted house in the woods style poetry theme it's one of those books that with the right instrumental album on as a soundtrack like Peter Gundry, is so immersive especially with carnival language, eerie wind talking, costal observations and sleep themes too, everything is talking surrounding us.

Wilted Roses & Empty Pages by Amit Sati

This collection of poetry speaks deeply about the sadness built of solitude. Some stand out poems to me were: A Person, was a simple but effective poem listing how we are inspired and always will envision one person when writing poetry especially. Hopeless, was another poem about how one person can help inspire you to feel hopeful or hopeless with words and actions and the power of them to you. What A Wonderful World, was a brilliantly simple and ironic poem about how in this world we can hurt each other, so simply and cruelly, sadly. This was a beautiful collection of melancholy and relatable poetry.

READ THIS IF YOU’RE OVERTHINKING AGAIN: Late-Night Thoughts, Overthinking, and the Quiet Process of Letting Go by T.Euke

This was a great book almost like a friend holding up a mirror to your brain of a night-time, discussing how at night, overthinking, trying to understand how conversations and relationships suddenly and often quietly ended and how the cycle of thinking too much can loop us to doubt how we acted and how we can feel much more than the other person did it seems to us and that just being sad about how the situation unfolded is a simple fact of the matter of the situation you experienced and instead of spiralling into overthinking, this collection soothes those thoughts knowing so many of us can spiral into our thoughts before reaching a calm acceptance and realisation of our situations faced.

I'm Still Everywhere by T.Euke

This was a gorgeous picture book for children deealing with pet loss and the grief and heartbreak from the loss that is felt. Through simple lines to provide comfort and aid understanding of losing a pet the illustrations perfectly show how children may be feeling from the loss seeking comfort for example in toys and reflecting on memories.

Open Wounds & Healing Scars by Stacey Nicole Douglas

This poetry collection reads like a collection of thoughts collated into a diary style read of thoughts that occur following losing the one person you loved and cared for so deeply and the juxtaposition of loving and losing, feeling so happy and so sad because of that one person and the oddness of becoming stranger's again to each other, a collection I know so many of us can read and instantly relate to.

I AM CONFUSED: A collection of poetry and prose by Sofia Romulan

This collection focuses on all the ways little things we can hate before learning to love about ourselves can shape us and our thought's can hold us back despite feeling the feelings we feel, how words can be hard but actions still speak strongly and loudly of true intentions and the way it can as the title says, leave us feeling confused.

Ruins Called Home by Rithika Talluri

This poetry collection focuses on us, a body as homez with poems about the way growing up shapes us, to comply, the juxtaposition of being an emotional anchor to someone yet forgettable almost too. All the poems are numbered not titled, so a line from poem number 6: When I Become Enough Company, 'a quiet intelligence in being alone' Which really hit with me spending time alone solo, reading, listening to music or the radio especially to me makes me feel calm, no pressure, not performing or conforming to however anyone would want me to be, just instead accepting myself and my life for what it is and what makes me happy. One poem can can make you feel seen and accepted, poem number six was that poem for me.