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Isolation: Poems
a collection of poetry surrounding the time I felt most alone but learned to love myself and grow.
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Published October 22, 2020
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Shannon O'Connor
64 books854 followersShannon O’Connor is a twenty something, bisexual, self published poet of several books and counting. O’Connor enjoys life’s simple pleasures: coffee, reading, traveling, and spending time with her new baby. O’Connor is continuously working on new poetry projects, book reviews, and more, while also diving into motherhood. She loves supporting local indie authors & shops as much as possible.
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March 5, 2022
This collection of poetry bleeds with emotion. Short and pointed - drawn forth by differing events such as isolation, broken relationships, the pandemic, diminished self worth and the determination to blossom again, be comfortable in one's skin - to be seen!
A read that made me ponder and reassess the impact global events had on my life and family, the stress suffered, strain on relationships and the hope love would win the day.
Just because you do not see me
does not mean
I am not beautiful
that I am not worth loving.
I rec'd a copy through Booksprout and this is a voluntary, unbiased review.
A read that made me ponder and reassess the impact global events had on my life and family, the stress suffered, strain on relationships and the hope love would win the day.
Just because you do not see me
does not mean
I am not beautiful
that I am not worth loving.
I rec'd a copy through Booksprout and this is a voluntary, unbiased review.
January 12, 2021
** I was sent an e-arc in exchange for review. All opinions are my own **
She does it again!
Particularly enjoyed the slightly new formatting of various poems - the stylistic choice was very well done.
Overall, these poems hit home with the peak of the pandemic striking when she wrote this. Absolutely raw and real as always.
And the HIMYM reference made my heart swell.
She does it again!
Particularly enjoyed the slightly new formatting of various poems - the stylistic choice was very well done.
Overall, these poems hit home with the peak of the pandemic striking when she wrote this. Absolutely raw and real as always.
And the HIMYM reference made my heart swell.
December 31, 2021
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January 20, 2022
The first book I've read about our current pandemic and the mental health crisis that it's brought along with it. This is real and hits home. It's nice to know someone else felt the loneliness and sadness that I did during quarantine.
"You aren't doing well when you want to lie to your therapist. "
"You aren't doing well when you want to lie to your therapist. "
July 15, 2021
4.5 stars Raw, relevant and honest, my favourite collection to date.
October 4, 2021
Sensitive poetry of breakup
This is a unique collection of sensitively written poems dealing with something everyone wishes doesn't happen to them - a breakup.
There are quite a number of lines that make you want to re-read them. I recommend this collection.
This is a unique collection of sensitively written poems dealing with something everyone wishes doesn't happen to them - a breakup.
There are quite a number of lines that make you want to re-read them. I recommend this collection.
August 3, 2021
Beautiful Collection
This collection of poetry is heartfelt and will pull at the deepest parts of you. I love the wide array of topics, from quarantine to writers block to lost love to motherhood, someone is bound to find something they relate to in this book. A great read!
This collection of poetry is heartfelt and will pull at the deepest parts of you. I love the wide array of topics, from quarantine to writers block to lost love to motherhood, someone is bound to find something they relate to in this book. A great read!
December 2, 2020
really beautiful collection and very relevant to how many of us are feeling right now!
November 28, 2021
Moving Raw Poetry
Shannon opens her soul to us in this collection. I find solace in her poetry, as my own family members struggle with issues that she speaks of. Her writing helps me to understand. Thank you for helping all of us become better and more accepting to each other.
Shannon opens her soul to us in this collection. I find solace in her poetry, as my own family members struggle with issues that she speaks of. Her writing helps me to understand. Thank you for helping all of us become better and more accepting to each other.
August 23, 2021
Just like all of Shan's writing, I absolutely loved this poetry collection!! She never fails to make me feel less alone and truly hit my heart both with things I've experienced and things I haven't. While this particular collection has some themes that are still fresh, it's nice to see people writing about it. Shan's writing always makes me feel like I'm speaking to and comforting a friend.
January 13, 2022
Isolation is a collection of poems that give an intimate glimpse into one person’s psyche through quarantine and feeling isolated in relationships.
I think we can all agree that Covid has gone on much longer than we all thought, and the raw emotion in this work really captures how many people struggled and may still be doing so. Navigating relationships and the world around us has always been hard, but never more so than over the last two years. Bravo to the author for capturing this so well!
I think we can all agree that Covid has gone on much longer than we all thought, and the raw emotion in this work really captures how many people struggled and may still be doing so. Navigating relationships and the world around us has always been hard, but never more so than over the last two years. Bravo to the author for capturing this so well!
January 11, 2022
I read this in one sitting! Isolation is an emotional, enjoyable collection of poems about love, friendship, isolation, and surviving in the middle of a pandemic, with some beautiful writing throughout. Looking forward to reading more of Shannon’s work. ✨
January 31, 2022
This was a beautiful collection of poetry that everyone could relate to. I have never read any poetry about being in quarantine, so this was quite different but I really enjoyed it.
November 26, 2021
5 / 5 Stars!!
I want to quote half the book so that I can show you how amazing it is and how much I connected with it. I want to spill all of my feeling into this review until I bleed out from it. And I want to scream until you're all deaf because this! This made me very emotional, and sad, and understood and seen and Aaaaah!
I was close to tears through 99% of it, because the book was talking about me and to me.
The thing I hate about a lot of "inspirational" poems is that I'm not in the mindeset for sunshine, rainbow pooping unicorns, when you spend half of the book making me cry about our shared self-hatred.
You can't just switch from being depressed to not being depressed. It's a struggle you lose more often than you want. And this book just gets it.
I don't know how
to let myself be happy
but I deserve to be
I'm going to write it
And say it
Until I believe it.
This is this feeling of "I know I deserve happyness. I know I want happyness, I know I want to not feel like shit all the time, but GOD is it hard."
I'm still very raw and open, because this book hit me so hard I fell over. And now I don't know how to stand up anymore.
It's talking about depression, toxic relationships, covid, lonlyness and self-worth/self-doubt. And it's doing an amazing job with all of these things.
The writing style is also very beautiful!
Truly an amazing collection!
I want to quote half the book so that I can show you how amazing it is and how much I connected with it. I want to spill all of my feeling into this review until I bleed out from it. And I want to scream until you're all deaf because this! This made me very emotional, and sad, and understood and seen and Aaaaah!
I was close to tears through 99% of it, because the book was talking about me and to me.
The thing I hate about a lot of "inspirational" poems is that I'm not in the mindeset for sunshine, rainbow pooping unicorns, when you spend half of the book making me cry about our shared self-hatred.
You can't just switch from being depressed to not being depressed. It's a struggle you lose more often than you want. And this book just gets it.
I don't know how
to let myself be happy
but I deserve to be
I'm going to write it
And say it
Until I believe it.
This is this feeling of "I know I deserve happyness. I know I want happyness, I know I want to not feel like shit all the time, but GOD is it hard."
I'm still very raw and open, because this book hit me so hard I fell over. And now I don't know how to stand up anymore.
It's talking about depression, toxic relationships, covid, lonlyness and self-worth/self-doubt. And it's doing an amazing job with all of these things.
The writing style is also very beautiful!
Truly an amazing collection!
June 5, 2022
This is another beautiful collection of poems by Shannon O’Connor. The words are very poignant as they relate to emotions and strong feelings of isolation, friendship and love, but also the current pandemic sweeping the world and turning lives upside down. When Ms O’Connor puts pen to paper her emotions flow freely and as you read each word you are enveloped by the true meaning of each and every word. Outstanding once again by Ms O’Connor.
May 30, 2021
This is the first book of poetry that I’ve ever read. You could literally feel the emotions with each poem. Such raw, heart wrenching feelings. This represents how many of us are actually feeling at the moment❤️.
May 23, 2021
I am new to poetry ,so not sure what to say except this was real , honest and meant a lot to the author and to us readers for her to put this out there. I am sure each reader will be able to relate to something , if not many things in these pages .
December 7, 2020
Beautiful Poetry Collection.
"I only love myself in between the breaths of other’s compliments"
A beautifully relatable poetry collection.
I have highlighted multiple poems in this collection. ✍ ❤
"but you are a blood stain on my heart no amount of grocery store bleach can remove so I’m here hoping you’ll come save me after all this time"
"I only love myself in between the breaths of other’s compliments"
A beautifully relatable poetry collection.
I have highlighted multiple poems in this collection. ✍ ❤
"but you are a blood stain on my heart no amount of grocery store bleach can remove so I’m here hoping you’ll come save me after all this time"
August 29, 2021
It is a really good book and It is really interesting.
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