Living with the After (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781919538525)

What do you do when the person you built your life around is suddenly gone?

This powerful and deeply personal poetry collection explores what it truly means to grieve - not just in the immediate aftermath of loss, but in the long, quiet days that follow, when carrying on can feel almost impossible.

Written after the death of the author's partner, Darren, these poems speak from inside real grief. They move through the raw early days of loss, the loneliness that so often goes unseen, and the slow, fragile return to living - all while holding onto a love that never disappears.

Honest, unflinching, and deeply compassionate, this book does not try to fix grief or rush it along. Instead, it offers something far more important:

the feeling of being understood.

For anyone who has lost someone they love - a partner, a soulmate, a life companion - these poems will resonate deeply. They remind us that grief is not something to overcome, but something we learn to carry, because love does not end.

This is a book for the quiet moments.

For the days when the world moves on without you.

For the times when you need to know that what you are feeling is real.

Above all, it is a book that says:

you are not alone.