The Words I Could Never Say by Yogesh Chandra

This poetry collection perfectly sums up how you can struggle to be seen for the depths of your emotions are drowning and unending it feels like when no one else can understand why or how you feel the way you do, perfectly fitting the title indeed this collection was.

Whispers for the Unchosen Heart: Between Almosts by T.Euke

This poetry collection talks of the almost and maybe moments, the myth of being chosen or treated as an option, the ache at night of feeling alone with just restless thoughts and questions of why not you in the situation you're in. The repetition of almost over the certainty and the expectations of life that pass by silently avoiding you and the norm life path, so you see the contrast of the pain of being unchosen in thoughts and feelings honestly discussed.

Sad poems for sad girls: A mental struggle by Tierra Ikell

This poetry collection is like having a friend telling you all the tiny things to appreciate in each day to help you feel boosted and brighter from simply enjoying the sun, to appreciating yourself and who you are, each layer of yourself, ones you love, ones you hate that all make us the beautiful messy humans we are.

Unraveling Soulties by Stacey Nicole Douglas

This book was a deeply personal reflection on the cutting relationship told through poetry and a timeline of month's and moment's retold showing the connection and the way it altered and effected them deeply and the limgering effects from being so deep in like with someone and how it can leave you feeling attached still despite trying to come apart from what you were with them.

Whispers: that didn't leave by T.Euke

This was a great book touching on the stillness that settles in life and the closure that is ongoing in feelings that stay in the quiet surrounding us daily and how people, however brief a conversation is, can shape the moment and your life and the impact a few words can have on you as you continue in life word's can echo and remain carried with you.

Based On You by Arisa Hart

This poetry collection focuses on all the ways we can feel love from different people and situations. October and Eager, were two poems on how loving someone can feel powerful. Guts, was an honest poem about loving someone who only lies to you. Mother, was a poem of a mother talking and hoping for her daughter to never feel the weight of comparison like she did growing up. Happy Genes, was a phenomenal poem about everyone having a differing vision of beauty to them and as a white British girl with family around the world with various mixed ethnicities, skin tones, hair types and nationalities is such a relatable poem how every girl and guy has a differing experience in life, good or bad and how we should all just be kind to each other and embrace the beauty of us all being so different. A beautiful collection of poetry especially on loving our differences more in a world that can feel so narrow-minded or superficial sometimes.

Wildflower by SaDee Hodge

This new poetry collection from SaDee discusses her life from the metaphor of being a wildflower in a world of seemingly perfect flowers and how life isn't always beautiful on the surface but can eventually deeply be seen so. Some stand out poems to me from this collection were: Sapphire, about pet loss, was utterly heartbreaking and so relatable as a rabbit owner myself, losing them over the rainbow bridge cuts every time especially after ten years with a rabbit who was more like a puppy following you around and SaDee losing her cat Sapphire, every pet loss cuts as deep as a human loss to me and it's so important we talk more openly about the loss of such a companion that provides love and support. To The You I'll Never Know, was again a heartbreaking and relatable poem to anyone who's faced abortion or even miscarriage and the way it alters your life forever as you can become a mum just not the way everyone perceives a mum to be as your baby isn't physically here with you in your arms it's a whole new depth of grief full of endless questions and SaDee captures the mixture of feelings, emotions and questions we can wonder on perfectly. Supply, was a poem all about the way poetry can be addictive and get you hooked on reading and writing it and it's a healthier option to have a supply of. Wildflower, the final poem of the collection and the title poem, talks of growing on and through everything and craving a change of scenery around you and honestly from past experience too, I got a new job away from the area I knew and had bad memories in and that step in itself felt freeing, empowering and like a whole new chance to embrace change for the better. We should all be more of a wildflower, embrace our beauty and worth in our space and adapt and grow through all life throws us.

The Journey Of Love by Becky Leigh Gregg

This poetry collection, as per the title, shows a journey of love of all kinds, from self love, to romantic love, familial love and the ways each experience shaoes you in a positive or negative way. Some stand out poems of this collection were: Intentions, was a beautiful poem on human care in the face of tragedy and how someone's true nature shines in the darkest of times. Antidote, was a beautiful poem about how the right love will heal you from past hurt you've survived. My Body, was such an empowering poem about self love after abuse and escaping a toxic relationship and realising you should embrace who you are unapologetically, always. Hurt Again, was a powerful poem in the aftermath of divorce about how tiring dating apps can be to try. Empty Nest, was an utterly relatable poem to the pain of gynaecology or endocrinology meetings and appointments of which I could relate when you're told you may not or cannot have children and the shift that occurs in your life from that moment onwards. This collection is one that will definitely make you think deeply and reflect on your life and choices and the impact they have had throughout it too.

Losing to Anorexia: a poetry collection by Adela Lily

This poetry collection as per the title and trigger warning, is about anorexia and also applies to eating disorders and weight loss in general too talking in depth of the feelings you can experience. The collection is deeply moving in discussing how words can harm our view of ourself and our worth and the physical effects of an eating disorder taking hold of you, altering you and how your mind can see you in a warped view as you lose more weight, more of yourself and the cycle of it never being enough and becoming a spiral.

Negligence, Abuse & Rage: a collection of poetry and prose (Silent Battles Book 1) by Adela Lily

This poetry collection tells of the way being brpught up in an abusive and unsupportive household can effect you from childhood into the estbof your life and thr after effects that remain. It was a deeply moving collection and the depth of honesty sharing such pieces of poetic writing to tell her story is incredible and a great way to not only show resilience to not let it define you but to use it as a way to raise awareness of domestic abuse and violence children can face and the way it can lead into self worth issues and eating disorders from the lack of control over life situations you can face.