Book Review: ‘You’ll Never Walk Alone’ by Rachel Kelly

Thanks to the lovely people at Yellow Kite/Hodder and Stoughton for providing me with a copy of this new poetry book for review.

As always, opinions are entirely my own.


I’ve long been an advocate of literature as a means of wellbeing – for lots of us in the blogging community, books are where we relax, engage, challenge ourselves and zone out of everyday problems and stresses.

With this in mind, I was delighted to be asked to review Rachel Kelly’s ‘You’ll Never Walk Alone: Poems for Life’s Ups and Downs’. Kelly is a Sunday Times bestselling author as well as a mental health campaigner so I was interested in her poetry collection – an anthology of poems that have helped her over the years.

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Book Review: ‘100 Poets: A Little Anthology’ by John Carey

Having thoroughly enjoyed John Carey’s ‘A Little History of Poetry’, I was pleased to be given an advance copy of ‘100 Poets: A Little Anthology’ for review. Thanks to NetGalley and Yale University Press for my book – opinions, as always, are entirely my own.

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