I Am Learning To Love Me: Story and Poetry Book by Aradhya Sharma

This poetry collection talks of the pain of heartbreak and the aftermath you are left with to adapt, rebuild and become yourself again by treating yourself with soft care and healthy boundaries. The book also has a section of Dear Me letters and affirmations, a series of self belief and self love encouragement pieces to end on and be left to sit with and reflect which was such a lovely way to make us reflect.

For Those Who Stayed by Thomas Veins

This was a beautiful collection of poetry about appreciation for moments in life that lead people to come in to your life and leave you with a lasting impression. Some stand out poems to me were: If You Want To Write, a simple poem about as it says quite literally if you want to write and to actually do so and get inspired. Almost Zero, about the chances of each of us being here by generations of choices made making our lives all collide now. Snowdrop, was a beautiful poem alikening the strength of a flower to grow through a harsh winter to the strength in life some people willingly take on their shoulders. You Should Be Here, about moments amplifying missing someone, even the mundane everyday ones, especially those. Loving A Writer, about the depth and the different lenses that anyone who writes sees through, reading people and scenario's and situations in multiple ways compared to others. It was a great collection of poems about various people and situations we encounter in life and showing appreciation for all they have given us.

The Change: A Healing Journey by Rae Greenwood

This poetry collection focuses on the change of how losing a baby can cause you to feel and how companionship in a surprising way by in the author's instance of a pet cat and in my own a pet bunny can help you find fragile hope and help you cope after such a loss that once seemed impassable.

The Loss: A Fragile Journey (The Journey Series: A Poetry Collection Book 1) by Rae Greenwood

This was a tender collection of poetry honouring a little one lost tragically too soon, early loss or chemical pregnancy which can sound clinical, is something a lot of us can experience and this book of poems perfectly captured how a pregnancy can change your life forever, even if you never got to hold your little one.

Fragments Of Love by Saraswat Dey

This collection of poetry focuses on all the small fragments of showing love in poems displaying illustrational line drawings with each poem to annotate the idea and meaning further. The stand out poem to me was easily, Before You Fall Asleep, a simple idea but deep feeling about the tender moments shared before sleep together with your loved one. The collection perfectly captures all the ways you feel from falling in love, the tender moments, the hard goodbyes, the way love lingers in various ways in every day moments and after a relationship ends too. A great collection that absolutely suits it's title, a beautiful collection of fragments of love captured.

A Garden in the Dark: Poems of quiet strength, blooming in silence by Emory Rivers

This poetry collection is all about reconnecting to yourself after being hurt by people through life and how moving on and leaving them in the past can be freeing and healing over time for yourself. Some stand out poems to me were: The Beauty Of Solitude, a relatable poem about enjoying your own company, not being lonely but content pleasing yourself. Holding Hands With Loneliness, spoke openly of the empty space being more welcoming and comfortable than guessing how another truly feels to leave you questioning and worried over feeling content. The Mirror's Reflection, was a really relatable poem about body imagie discomfort caused by others judgement before our own appreciation for what it can do. The Roads We Didn't Take, about versions of us that could've once existed had we made different choices in life. Some heavy and powerful poems to relate to.

I'll Leave A Light On by William Bortz

This poetry collection was tender and hopeful and the title poem especially about the act of choosing each other again and again was beautiful. Some stand out poems to me were: Grasping, especially stood out as the tender breath of connection between a baby and parent. Apple Picking, too, about the delight in simple things providing joy in family life daily. Even When The Day Is Over, about returning to the one you love after a day whether full of good or bad moments. Tourniquet, was a great ending poem to remind us all the pain we can inflict on ourselves we have the ability to prevent harming us. A beautiful concept collection of the light family and connection provides us with hope and love, always.

Things I Never Learned How To Say by Ever Grin

This poetry collection focuses on some hard hitting life topics from grief, self love, cutting off friends and relationships despite the hurt it can cause but protect you from. The collection reads as poems giving truly honest reflections on life issues and hard times faced which we can relate to.

Poetry Book Hidden Narrative by Sohini

This poetry collection focuses on the pain childhood can cause in trauma lingering on into adult life and how you can feel you were diminished instead of cherished and how you can struggle with attachment and feeling solitude is safer after everything you've faced. A deep feeling collection.

It Will Be Ok by Gracie Madison Elizabeth

This poetry collection tells of the author falling in love, all the emotions that came with it and the aftermath of the ending of said relationship and friendship. The book was beautifully set out with black on white type and illustrations throughout to annotate the poems too it was a sad but beautiful collection of poems that flowed easily telling the story of love and friendship and the effects of the break-up leading hack to the title, especially, with hindsight too.