Last Act of Love by Stacey Nicole Douglas

This newest collection by Stacey focuses on the thoughts and feelings on reflection of a relationship ending, the severing of ties and the way music can be a bridge of longing and memories as you're left to grieve someone still living, the way you stop visiting places they did too, how you can long for someone despite the pain caused to you by them, how little things are big in total at the cost of feelings and how it effects you both short and long term.

The Girl Beneath the Moon: Poems on Healing, Motherhood, Love, Loss, and Becoming by Courtney Bailey

This was such a beautiful collection of poetry from the ages and stages of life we grow through. Some stand out poems of this collection to me were: Little Bones Carry Big Things, the way life can be heavier yet invisible to others around a child, clueless to the weight the little one carries. Hyperaware, was a poem about how you learn young to read a room from looks and tone instead bracing yourself, instead of feeling safe. The Loop, was a great poem and to me, makes me think of my anxious mind spiralling into thoughts Too Much and Never Enough, was again, a really relatable poem about how different people have different views of you depending on your relationship with that person. The whole section of poems about grief was so basic on the surface of the discussion but that's the beauty of the discussion because grief even talked about the basic of the person being gone, opens up a whole new depth, that every layer, every memory held or never made, because time passed like they did, taking a new shape of loss and especially the poem December, to me the month containing Christmas is one to survive because it's a sad reminder of all missing and not all to love when so many we loved have gone, it is just cold and empty grief. Eight Years Later, wow what a beautiful poem, an almost poetic story telling of our author's life in discovering love and growing up entwined. Near the end of the collection a poem simply titled, To My Husband, about the depth of love built over years of trust and choosing each other. Strawberry and Cherry, were literally sweet little poems to each little daughter and their unique way of providing love. Each section of poems is like a reflection on parts of life we live through and how we feel older, wiser, looking back on how we've grown from going through the situations faced it was a truly beautiful well structured poetry book and a delight to read.

Overheard At Wholefoods by Idiocratea

This collection alike the others in this series too, had me laughing from start to finish at the unbelievable and inevitable moments you face hearing in shops. The different brands/types of water promoting various kinds of benefits was one I totally understood, unexpected kale discussion and cash usage in generational divide, dogs in various bizarre laughable situations their owners have thought up from diets to electricity producing and some very odd and random diet chats too. The most hilarious parts of this collection to me, were the parents chats to their kids in the shops, utterly hilarious, from organic foods, learning food symbols and kids random comments unfiltered and unstoppable by their parents. It was a great book to spend an evening reading and thinking about what you do hear people chatting about when out shopping!

Night Light by Isaac Paredes

Touching on the impact of the dark nights, thoughts and feelings arising on reflection of loneliness and the feeling of wishing to change and wishing to escape and the depths of your mind causing you to feel worthless in the spiral of thoughts you experience, especially by night laying awake contemplating and overthinking, a relatable collection for anyone who feels and thinks deeply especially in the dark early hours.

What I Wish I Said To You by Isaac Paredes

Detailing how falling in like or love can be deep, chemical, touching on self hatred, facing yourself in the mirror but embracing your flaws for how you see them isn't how others do and tackling your mind this was a concise collection of poetry straight to the depths of what effects us most in life.

readme.txt by Connie Pillon

This collection is told through a series of published snippets of poetry and daily thoughts around a variety of subjects from self love, to projection and addiction and how we should all work on simply being happy in ourselves before trying to be with somebody else as if we're not happy it won't make for a joyous relationship without mutual love and respect for each other and your feelings.

The Love That Stayed Unsaid (The Quiet Rooms Series Book 2) by Linda Odelmar

This poetry collection is the second in the series and focuses on the feeling of love when chance has been missed, the way someone is unforgettable for the way they're so memorable to your mind and body, I especially enjoy the poetic examination of silence in the way objects and rooms hold so much noise screaming in painful silence in what remains in the aftermath, from a hoodie, cup, coffee, simply space and how communication breaking down, words and actions being misinterpreted can lead to deep misunderstanding and the silence of what is left and as the title says, remains unsaid.

Unrequited by Misti S

This was a great collection of poetry which dives in to the title of unrequited love with depth of how it can effect you and your day life/habits. Some stand out poems of the collection to me were: Lost Too Many Homes, about literally moving and too losing so many people you love to not want to feel so vulnerable again. Safe Space, was such a tender poem about wanting to be the person you like so much's person to go to confide in It was a short yet concise collection working well as it is.

After You, There Was Silence by Albert Pillot

A fantastic collection of poetry focusing on the pain of love and losing it, short but concise and the poems have some beautiful rhymes too. If you've been heartbroken this is a book to show you others have felt the pain in different ways but that it can get better in time.

Healing Poems For Letting Go by Bryn Tandon

This collection of poetry is one to help you sit, reflect and realise truth's about life experiences and how you can find ways to progress and heal from whatever hurt you before leading you to healing, from the way we can replay past memories, tracing the hurt again and again before accepting it happened, it hurt but we have the power to not linger in the hurt forever, we can regret but accept and choose to close the door and move on from it all even when it can feel like there's no hope and a heavy weight to deal with. These poems instill and inspire having the courage to try and heal from whatever you have faced and it is always justified to try.

Meet Me At Table Twelve by Everly True

This was a great book full of humorous language and for the characters mixing literal business with pleasure for the two main characters working together closely trying to ignore their connection was brilliant to read and sweet to see their dynamic play out as they work closely together, it was a sweet and fun quick read with a great dynamic between the two main characters.

Ache And The Glow by Darshika Jain

This poetry collection focuses on during and after relationships and break-ups. Some stand out poems to me were: Guests Of The Soul, was a powerful poem alike how people fill rooms it's who stays after entering or chooses to return again and again who truly care and matter most. Half Naked Truth, about self perception from the mirror's reflection and how we can judge harshly our image over our personality within. For The Men Who Love Softly, talking how men are beautiful too in how they love gently, softly, caring for their family, partner, kids and being quietly caring in actions. More Than Flowers, how building a life starts with small gestures into larger commitments as time goes on, a bouquet over time choosing, becomes a garden to nurture together. A beautiful collection of becoming poems from the right love that makes you glow and shine bright when it's right.

To My First and Only Star by Salin Vishwakarma

This was a beautiful collection of poetry to first love and speaking directly to 'yew' their beloved in a series of poems of hope and wishes for them though they may now be apart, they can still wish them well for their now separate futures for what they did share at the time and the lasting meaningful memories from their moments together.

You Felt Like Home: Reflections On Love, Green Flags & Everything In Between by Amber Scott

This was a beautiful collection of poetic reflections of love how the right relationship and person makes everything softer, brighter, joyful, feeling the ease of being equal partners, plain simple mutual feelings with added sweetness, kindness, the beauty of a name being such a simple thing we say yet like music about the one you love and the way the beauty of the natural world speaks to you when comparing it to love and finding a half that feels complete with you blooming and growing, glowing and feeling like you're at home with the one you love.

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.