Roots: Poems of Remembering: When remembering becomes returning by Evelyn Valehart

This poetry collection focuses on the metaphor of seeds and roots literally in the ground and in our families and how every step we take is rooted and for us to remember how each step, choice and decision can shape us.

Whispers Unsaid by T.Euke

This collection of poetry focuses on the unsaid words, the almosts spoken in feelings of desire and love, what remains but could be foreseen to go various ways besides how it actually really played out and what never got said instead got typed for closure as the whispers unsaid.

The Slowest Goodbye by Stacey Nicole Douglas

This collection opens on a very clever poem about the Disney princeses and their princes and the way we can feel deeply desiring to be their fairytale girl and their heroine yet feeling you fall short to real life expectations that fantasy can set. Discovering feeling needed for things, not loved, desired, treated well and ultimately cherished. My Goodbye Was A Test, was a fantastic sad and relatable poem about losing connection before it could truly become something proper. There was also a poem about the habit of checking on your person you adored and loved online seeing them and how they know little insignificant things that make you, you and you hate that in hindsight having been so open and vulnerable for it to all fall apart. The title absolutely speaks for this collection and the poems show all the ways entangled lives do slowly come apart again.

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.

Open Wounds & Healing Scars by Stacey Nicole Douglas

This poetry collection reads like a collection of thoughts collated into a diary style read of thoughts that occur following losing the one person you loved and cared for so deeply and the juxtaposition of loving and losing, feeling so happy and so sad because of that one person and the oddness of becoming stranger's again to each other, a collection I know so many of us can read and instantly relate to.

I AM CONFUSED: A collection of poetry and prose by Sofia Romulan

This collection focuses on all the ways little things we can hate before learning to love about ourselves can shape us and our thought's can hold us back despite feeling the feelings we feel, how words can be hard but actions still speak strongly and loudly of true intentions and the way it can as the title says, leave us feeling confused.

Love In Pain by Broken Poet

Poetry literally as it is titled, detailing the reaction and thoughts from a guy struggling with grieving the relationship he was in and how it has changed him and his life after it ended. A very short collection, easy to read on a break and still made me think and relate to parts of the poems also good to read from a male poet their thoughts and feelings after a break-up too.

Hello Grief, Welcome Home by Lindani Gwamanda

A short yet emotion filled collection of poems how grief arrives and remains in daily life touching everything, lingering with reminders of the love shared, nurtured and lost, a really beautiful collection with many relatable lines and moments for reflection.

Intoxicated Poems by Vaidehi Kanathe

The title of this collection intrigued me and it speaks of love as the drug, falling in to lust and deep love, never wanting to part and poetry from feelings being more intoxicating that alcohol to try cope with your feelings in a more healthy and productive way.

Reminder by Esseme

This little poetry collection serves us reminders in a few lines only, each poem tells how love should be a priority, easy and not an hard time or argumentative constantly instead it should be beautiful. Each poem is like small little served reminders like glimmers of hope to educate.

Dark Skies And Car Conversations by Kai Rowan

A short poetry collection about the beauty of late night drives igniting bright hope and honesty in thoughts to become this beautiful collection of poetry.

Misplaced Diary by Shira Sanjh

This was a collection of lengthier poetry about unrequited love and crushes, the effect the particular one you admire or adore can make you feel and believe there's nothing better than them, you can't write them better or find another as good.

Undeliverable Love Poems by Shannon Sonnenberg-Pietila

This poetry collection focuses on how the loves of your lives can provide a story and shape your views of life and situations. Too Late, was a great poem on reflection of a break-up and realising how good someone was and the desire to go back when you can't. A short but detailed storytelling style poetry collection.

The Broken Heart Poetry by Joanna Kurczak

Really beautiful words in dedication to love, the feeling, emotion of it, raw and honest in love and after breaking up, the longing and loss, something we can all relate to in this collection.

Pieces Of My Heart by Despoina Kemeridou

I was drawn to read this collection for the fact it is themed to be darker from the tagline on the cover and having previously enjoyed Despoina's other moving poetry collections. From the start there is a fantasy edge to the writing with knights and ladies, a hero's theme too, before moving on to haunted house theme too. The poem, Me As I Am, was relatable and so simple the way it was written just stating facts and I love when you can really relate to poetry to get you thinking about life and situations too. Darker but still deeply moving!