I can hardly believe it, but my debut poetry book debuts tomorrow – 15th June 2026!!
Blurb
Some days we feel unstoppable. Other days we barely recognise ourselves.
Mood Swings is a collection of poems for anyone who has ridden the emotional rollercoaster of life.
Exploring everything from love, anxiety, grief and anger to hope, healing and self-discovery. These poems speak to the moments we rarely say out loud.
Honest, heartfelt and sometimes, painfully familiar, this collection embraces the messiness of being human and celebrates the strength it takes to keep moving forward.
Because every emotion has its season.
About Mood Swings
This is such a personal journey for me.
I was writing poetry long before I began writing my short stories or longer form novels, but I generally kept them to myself. I guess you could say they were my own guilty pleasure. This is because there is a little bit of me within each and every poem I have included in this book.
Whilst you won’t be able to identify the situation I have written about, the emotion behind it lays bare the emotions we all feel at various times in our lives.
And those emotions fluctuate, they move, they ebb and they flow just like the coming of the tide or that swing in the park that moves back and forth. Sometimes slow and gentle, sometimes with a force and energy that feels unstoppable.
It’s impossible for me to pick a favourite, because of the personal element to each, but the following two poems have to be close to the top.
The Time We Did Our Last was written when I was told that someone I loved was about to pass. The cancer had won. I read this out later at his funeral.
An Ode to the World Cup was written during the 2022 event when I was idly channel hopping and couldn’t find anything to watch because of the blanket coverage. I think it’s fair to say that football isn’t high on my list of must see events…
It is available in Paperback, Kindle and Kindle Unlimited from 15th June 2026.
Links to purchase
Amazon – https://amzn.eu/d/0inyBj20
I’d love to know what emotions you would like to read more about, or which poems in the book resonate with you the most. Please share your thoughts in the comments.
Piskie Dreams 