I Laughed So Nobody Asked by T.Euke

This collection focuses on the quiet ones, the people that can be perceived as loud, happy etc but deep inside likes the quiet, the fragile truth masked, alike the cover of the collection was clever in showing with the use of the removed mask laid down. Talking of how depression isn't just visible crying and sadness and the way we pretend too often rather than being open and hoenst with struggles for fear of judgement, the way we can easily serve up compassion for others but not ourselves, instead often speaking harshly to our own self and the way depression takes small moment's and makes you feel like they're forecasts of the future, happy or sad and how frightening and daunting it can be to be honest and answer that deeply, you're not ok, how the mirror can feel like a liar when you look and see nothing special unlike how others see you and celebrate you easily and how depression can move in and swallow up space where things you loved and enjoyed and found joy in get taken away. I particularly enjoyed the final note reaching out to anyone relating to the collection in the words shared and honestly as a retail worker and someone who has experienced using antidepressants, I always look at everyone I encounter in daily life with kindness and compassion because it is so true that we don't know what each other cannot bring themselves to say aloud and is dealing with quietly.

Read This When You're Not Okay by T.Euke

I love a book that makes you think and reflect especially after facing rough and tough times and this book was absolutely one that reaches deep within your heart and mind to make you think about what you've faced, survived and continue to live, survive and maybe even learn to thrive after. From comparison and feelings that weigh heavy, this book is a companion style read to make you realise thoughts and feelings will pass they're not here forever and read this book when you need a hand to process how you're feeling and check in with yourself.

If Soul's Remember by T.Euke

This collection focuses on the way meeting someone can feel like a reunion though you've never met before timing was right and you crossed paths. Focusing on the concept's of making room, saving space to be ready when the right person arrives, unexpectedly right on time and the waiting, remembering and listening along the way including the tiny things and truths becoming you and making you who you are and how building comfort in smiles and silence that's peaceful and inevitably in me becoming we so easily.

Becoming Poems Of Wholeness by Evelyn Valehart

This poetry collection speaks of how the natural world, every light, every night, embraces the pieces of us, good and bad, broken and sad, a map to be whole again in a new way from healing and discovering how to be whole as we grow through life and situations.

Bloom Poems Of Healing by Evelyn Valehart

This was a beautiful collection of poems on slowing down and appreciating all the beauty of the natural world around us continuing on even when we're so busy and how alike flowers we are too needing water to nurture and sunlight to feel and heal through life.

Whispers Of Night by T.Euke

This collection is inspired by the night, the thought's and feelings that can creep in and settle with us. Some stand out poems of this collection to me were: Hunger Has A Voice, I Chose The Fall and What The Body Knows, are the three opening poems which map the way how we can feel the anticipation before the becoming and breaking of undeniable chemistry leading to action inevitably. Quiet Devotion and Moonlight Rules, about fitting easily amd the safety intimacy and softness can make you feel both seen and vulnerable in the tender dark hours. A collection that speaks of how the weight of night-time can lead to embracing the deepest thoughts and desires honestly.

Whispers Made Of Fire & Bone by T.Euke

This collection focuses on the way connection can feel inevitable, a flame that neither can deny nor tame for the spark. Some stand out poems of this collection to me were: In The Rooms Where I Miss You, how presence lingers in the essence of a room. Tender As The Dark, how the dark brings an almost ethereal sensual peace when night-time is when we rest with the one we love the most, not having them there the dark still comforts or taunts depending on the situation. Closer Than Breath, a poem how tension and desire in a mutual spark of interest can be a ticking time bomb until action. The Way I Hold You, was a beautiful love poem how knowing from previous hurt the purity of the right love and choosing time and time again to try and how trying is enough. Forbidden Hunger and other poems in the collection were sensual in the language of want, restraint and the art of temptation freying and the way two people were inevitably meant to become entangled in each others lives because sometimes a spark is undeniable, but inevitable.

The Window On The Train by Moonlit Paper Press

This collection was firstly beautiful in it's simple clean white page, black text and simple illustration layout. A few stand out poems to me were: Leaves In Autumn, how they glow before falling to their metaphorical death. Nothing Much, a poem about just enjoying time that we have, how we choose to. Remembering Us, how on reflection you can remember the good of a relationship and the beauty of the duo you were. The Spaces Between, was a simple lovely poem about how when you wake, before you sleep and in the little moments in-between during the day that one person stays on your mind you care for the most. The final section of the collection focuses on thoughts, reflections and notes from train journeys and how we see life on reflection and the collection had some beautiful nature and seasonal themed poetry to finish on.

I Sit Here and Hide: Poems of Silence, Survival and the Inner Room by Linda Odelmar

This opening poetry collection is book one in a new series and this was such a clever collection using the metaphor of a home, rooms and how alike our houses are to our body being our own personal house. Some stand out poems to me of this collection were: Repaint, how we decorate our houses with art alike our bodies craving to make them more perceivably beautiful. Everyday pulse, about how the morning rush around a house to get ready can feel like the house itself is alive and breathing with you. On The Way, was a great poem about how everything that happens in life how it has meaning for us and all is survival shaping us in the end. New Wings, about letting out the hurt and emotions from grey to colour again alike butterflies Uncut Diamond, was a beautiful poem about the perspective of us we never experience; through someone else's eyes and their opinion of us that we don't know, wealth in some way is how we are seen by others in character not literal monetary value. A fantastic collection to see a broader vision and other versions of ourselves from others interpretations.

Whispers I Mean to Keep by T.Euke

This new addition to the Whispers series of poetry talks us through everyday life thought's and feelings in poetic snippets. Talking of the way you can feel yourself in the wrong love or relationships being diminished from how bright and loving you are in caring so deeply, to the way the right love and relationships make you feel the most calm and you as you are naturally from feeling safe, trusted, loved and appreciated, it was a collection all about compatibility and choosing each other over and over, embracing vulnerability and speaking whispers from the heart.