To All the Women I've Ever Loved

by Billy Chapata

To All the Women I’ve Ever Loved is a heartfelt love letter to the divine feminine and all the women who carry its flame, from bestselling poet Billy Chapata.

Through poetry and prose, Billy Chapata—bestselling author of Velvet Dragonflies and Flowers on the Moon—lays flowers at the feet of the divine feminine, expressing deeply held gratitude and appreciation for the lovers, mothers, sisters, friends, healers, and teachers who have made his life all the more beautiful and full by shining their light on his heart, some for a lifetime, some for a chapter, and some for only a moment.
 
With Billy’s signature care, To All the Women I’ve Ever Loved serves as reflections on a life spent in the shadow of great women from whom he learned not only about love but about life, connection, personal growth, and how to be a man worthy of a good woman’s love. The lessons aren’t always easy, and some relationships won’t survive, but the love lives on in the memories, prayers, and poems that fill these pages.
 
This is for her, this is for them, this is for you.

Genres: Poetry

304 pages, Paperback

Published January 20, 2026

About the author

Billy Chapata is a Zimbabwean writer, author, and creative based in Atlanta, Georgia. Billy's work aims to touch on the concepts of love, healing, connections, and growth, through poetry, storytelling, and narrative. Writing came into his life as a means of sustenance, self-love, and empowerment: Billy writes to heal, he writes to grow, he writes to survive. His poetically infused words, memorable lessons, and bittersweet experiences have become a point of resonance and comfort for many across the world.

Reviews

[Marla Bowen · Rating 3 out of 5]

very cute read, respecting all the women he’s ever loved, it felt like reading an apology i needed to hear from someone else but will never get and that was healing for me

[Anna Hamilton · Rating 2 out of 5]

okay maybe this really wasn’t for me. i liked the middle section where he’s talking about his own experiences with love and his own observations of said experiences but i REALLY REALLY butted up against the whole “she’s stronger than she thinks she is” because 🤢🤢 i just really hate that in general let alone from a man telling presumably the audience of women who will read this what it’s like to be a woman. sure the intention might not have been that but that’s what it feels like to me. i felt like there were a lot of filler poems to the point that majority of it felt like instagram poetry and idk. parts of it felt VERY rupi kaur (derogatory for the sake of the argument) and it just :/ i was disappointed with more of it than i enjoyed but that’s just how i personally felt about it

[Hannah · Rating 5 out of 5]

Triggering and healing at the same time, Billy Chapata’s poetry felt like a conversation I’ll never get to have.

[Chaney]

Not the kind of thing I normally read, I picked this up on whim because I was just so enamored by the cover.

[Noel Salaices · Rating 5 out of 5]

To anyone whose ever loved a woman, you’ll love this book.

[Nathania Tasico · Rating 4 out of 5]

This felt like an apology that I will most likely never receive as well. It actually brought tears to my eyes every now and then, but this is the first poetry book that I've ever read in my entire life so I have no clear baseline of what is considered a "good" or "bad" poem. Overall, I was riding through so many emotions with every single page. A lot of the poems were sweet, kind, and soulful. Yet the most heartbreaking and brutally honest ones were from the author's perspective of his pain. It all reminded me of one person in my life that I am grieving over, and he must've felt some of the same things Chapata felt as well. It reminded me that he can also feel anger and hurt despite remembering all of the good things he experienced with anyone in his life. He's a human being allowed to express as much anger and bitterness as he wants. And you shouldn't expect less from a heart that loves so deeply, because love and hate are two sides of the same coin. It's the currency you pay in exchange for great passion.