Love & Relationships Anthology

When We Two Parted — explores secret grief, betrayal, and the pain of a lost relationship

Love's Philosophy — uses natural imagery to argue that love demands union and reciprocity

Porphyria's Lover — a disturbing dramatic monologue revealing obsessive, possessive love

Sonnet 29 — celebrates the transformative, redemptive power of romantic love

Neutral Tones — reflects on a relationship's end through bleak, wintry natural imagery

The Farmer's Bride — dramatises a farmer's frustrated desire and his wife's fear

Walking Away — a father reflects on the pain of letting a child become independent

Letters from Yorkshire — explores a long-distance connection between contrasting lives

Eden Rock — imagines a reunion with deceased parents at a remembered picnic spot

Follower — examines the shifting dynamic between father and son across time

Mother, any distance — uses an extended tape-measure metaphor for letting go of a parent

Before You Were Mine — addresses the speaker's mother as a young, glamorous woman before motherhood

Winter Swans — traces a couple's reconciliation through natural imagery of swans

Singh Song! — celebrates joyful, irreverent love that defies cultural expectations

Climbing My Grandfather — uses an extended climbing metaphor to explore familial love