Sweet Poison by Ariel Day

This newest collection by Ariel focuses on the power of love and lust being, as her title says, like a sweet poison. A couple of stand out poems to me were: Love Language, about craving being the one you love desires only. Invisible, about feeling smaller in the same place as you shrink to fit the life of the one you love to be kept in their life in any way at all. A collection to make you think and reflect on the way relationships can play out.

Holiday Encore by Raven

A story about past and present love and the emotions the festive season can stir, Alex and his young daughter, Lily, choosing to embrace the future no matter how scary the unknown seems making a new life as a trio than a duo despite past hurt. The story was told in a dual POV with us reader's as Alex's other half which meant we could slip into the story and feel more immersed in the emotions of how reuniting at the right time can work, a beautiful story of the way second chances and communication can work out right.

Holiday Overture by Raven

Alex and his young daughter, Lily, in the festive season reunite with his ex love and a second chance for them arises by pretending to be engaged to help his music shop business thrive in their village during a busy festive season. The story is split between Alex's POV and us readers slipping into his partner's perspective so we can imagine the depth of feelings and immersing ourselves into the story world alike in a play for deeper moving feeling of the story plot.

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.