I Hope This Finds You by Brandon Deem

I really enjoy Brandon's poetry books complete with photographs to annotate the journey of emotions we go on through each collection bringing it to life even more. For me in this collection, the poem about shedding skin about the life cycle of our bodies replacing cells to become anew and untouched by past love really made me think how amazing the human body is to rejuvenate and revitalise itself so we are in someways becoming a new us as we journey on through life quite literally. Discussion of finding a heart to be a permanent home but temporary people as love comes into and disappears from our lives too was deeply heartfelt and the ending of the collection, the photography and evocative language and imagery used just rounded it off perfectly in my view as if we'd explored a cycle of love found, held and lost.