Pains

by Maeve Curran

This collection of poetry revolves around types of pain, from the kind that makes you feel like you're going to burn up to the aching weeping pain that keeps you in bed. More importantly, it reflects on what living through pain can give you, and how pain can change you for the better.

112 pages, Kindle Edition

Published September 19, 2017

About the author

Maeve Curran is a graduate student intending to study medicine. She has been writing poetry for almost ten years and has been recognized by Scholastic and Creative Commons for her work. As a healthcare professional, she is interested in how writing can be used therapeutically and for healing.

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Reviews

[Arushi Singh · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is a beautiful collection of poetry that will make you feel a lot of things at once. It discusses a single theme in a myriad of ways, and therein lies its beauty. I recommend this book to anyone who loves poetry.

[Vanessa · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is a sad book. Life can be very painful I enjoyed the poem' 'duality''
''I want to be a raindrop
In a perched desert
I want to be a river’s
violent floods''.
Then these lines from another poem
''so even though
my secrets will save you
and you accept my prescription
you are afraid of what I may see''
and finally the poem ''my love.'' I agree with the poet's statement love should not be hard. Ironically, love is hard.

[Mark Kloss · Rating 5 out of 5]

I really enjoyed this book, despite the difficult topic. t really managed to strike a chord with how I feel at times. Beautiful description, particularly of nature. Maeve really managed to be very perceptive on inner feelings, that we all experience, if don't always talk about or broadcast.

[Lavi Picu · Rating 5 out of 5]

As the title reveals it, this poetry collection talks about pain. The author has an amazing ability of depicting the nuances of pain. As a reader, I related to most of the poems in this book.
I was pleasantly surprised by the sincerity and the flowing free verse style of the poems. I literally could not put the book (tablet) down.
The poems were well written, captivating and had the ability to take me on a journey, to show me the world through the author’s eyes. My favourite poems from Pains are “The labour of death” and “Duality”, which I really enjoyed reading over and over again!
I would recommend this collection of poems to all poetry lovers. It’s definitely worth the purchase!

[Aicha · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is an absolutely wonderful read. I feel so lucky to have stumbled across this collection. It is overwhelming at times. I would recommend this book to everyone.

[Annalise Grey · Rating 5 out of 5]

I just bought this collection on Amazon and was immediately hooked. These lyrical poems travel across every possible type of pain - life and love, the wildness of being, and relationships. So basically my kind of book - LOL.

Several poems really stood out for me enough to bookmark them in my Kindle so I can go back and reread: Inferno, Fairytales, Storms Inside, A Spell for You, Shadows Call, Tongues, and Adulthood.

There isn't a table of contents on Kindle so I didn't go and count the number of poems but for 2.99 it was a solid read with lots well-written poems.

[J.N. McGhee · Rating 5 out of 5]

These poems reached into my soul and began to enlighten me. I know I'm not the only one when I share this. But I know there are a lot of pains in my life that I feel I may never heal from. But reading each piece throughout this collection, it has provided a certain perspective of hope. "Prometheus" and "Scorched" were the two pieces I enjoyed. This collection of poems really packed a one-two knockout. Awesome read.