Soft Poetry Books: 6 Gentle Collections for Healing
Soft poetry doesn't shout. It sits beside you. These are gentle collections for heartbreak, for starting over and for staying tender when it would be easier not to.
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1. And Still, She Stayed Soft On this site
by Simran Mehta
A woman finding her way back to herself after breaking in places nobody could see. Poems of heartbreak, motherhood and choosing softness.
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2. Pillow Thoughts
by Courtney Peppernell
Organised by feeling, so you can open it to the one you're having. Comforting and direct.
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3. The Princess Saves Herself in This One
by Amanda Lovelace
A survival story in poems, in which the princess does her own rescuing.
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4. salt.
by Nayyirah Waheed
Spare, careful poems about identity, love and self-worth. Every word does work.
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5. Devotions
by Mary Oliver
Decades of quiet attention to the natural world. Oliver is the original soft poet.
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6. home body
by Rupi Kaur
Kaur at her gentlest, on the body, mental health and learning to stay.