The collection of the year for potato-loving millennials in f**kboi recovery.

From limerence to love to loss, this collection charts the self-love story of one poet from her mid- to late-twenties. The debut poetry collection from Kelly Newgreen.

ISBN: 9781916632264
Price: £12.00
Out 16 April 2026

These exquisite poems chart unrequited love alongside a parallel reckoning with the self. The speaker not only addresses the absent beloved, but also admonishes herself, for hope, for endurance, for confusing attachment with care.

Moving between intimacy and distance, time and memory, the collection captures unrequited love as both a wound and devotion. Dr Nasia Sarwar-Skuse

Dear God, this is Chicken Soup for the angry lovers Emmalees Furze

An eviscerating collection that had me pining for loves that had remained packed away in the back of my head. Whilst it feels vulnerable to read work that makes me feel so seen, it also read like the warmest hug reminding me that, in the end, we all share the same longing. Melanie Owen

A compelling collection which conjures love onto its pages for a thorough examination. These poems inhabit the complicated borderlands between friendships and relationships, they lose and find love for one’s self, and return to love in faith. Newgreen asks, who are we without love? Who are we with it? Richly restless, shot through with yearning and regret, there is darkness here, but there is hope, too, and above all resilience. Katherine Stansfield

Newgreen is able to bring new life to the existing canon of works about love – she bares her whole soul unashamedly, and with a grace that has become rarer and rarer. No stone is left unturned. Andrew Ogun

The definition of wearing your heart of your sleeve for all to bear. Vulnerable, fierce and unapologetic. Duke AL

With unbounded vulnerability this collection finds its power in the self, the life learnings of what love truly is, and where it can be found, and forgotten. Newgreen holds a mirror up to love-starved misplacements and the tenacious journey to find the power of our own hearts. Bridget Hart

Tender and achingly relatable, this stunning debut turns heartbreak into a fearless exploration of love, longing and the art of loving others while learning how to love yourself. An accomplished collection that feels both intimate and universal. Natalie Ann Holborow

This poetry collection understands love as a physical force. A tug in the chest. A pulling inside out. Balancing rage and tenderness, Newgreen moves through unrequited longing and the bewitching fragility of a not-quite-relationship. This collection is a healing peppermint tea passed by a friend as you cry on their shoulder.

These poems are brave and unflinching. They sit in the mess. In the ‘heart(s) slung in the sky.’ In the almost-relationships that haunt and shape us. In the fear of being unnoticed.

Love here is not tireless or safe. It is exhausting. It strips us back. It makes us question our place in the world. In a society where women feel the pressure to shrink ourselves, Newgreen shows that the only words of love that truly matter are ‘I matter to me.’

Newgreen courageously unfurls her heart, offering us all permission to feel deeply and to grow stronger because of trauma, not despite it. Rarely can we find the language for grief when we’re grieving ourselves. Newgreen generously gifts us that language. Bethany Handley