Pillow Thoughts ARC

Make a cup of tea and let yourself feel. Pillow Thoughts is a collection of poetry and prose about heartbreak, love, and raw emotions. It is divided into sections to read when you feel you need them most.

(You deserve flowers on your doorstep
and coffee in the morning )

(Andrews McMeel Publishing, 29 August 2017, copy provided by publisher via NetGalley and voluntarily reviewed)

I had similar feelings about Pillow Thoughts as the poet's other collection, The Road Between.

The poems are not bad, for the most they are just - nothing I haven't read thousands of times before in other collections. The poet knows how to create poetry, use imagery and has a way with words. However, there was nothing to make any poems stand out.

The themes are universal such as love, loss and heartache so it's easy to relate to the material. However, the problem with using such well used themes is how hard it is to say something different or new. None of the poems stood out in this respect.

Pillow Thoughts also has a lot of poems that are one or two sentences on a page that come across as some kind of self-help proclamation. These are also in The Road Between. These did nothing for me.