Lanterns (Paperback)

Ida Rae

ISBN 13: 9798994379721

Published by Ida Rae Publishing, 2025

About this Item

Paperback. Lanterns is a memoir in poetry that illuminates the journey through divorce, motherhood, and resilience. In this intimate collection, Ida Rae gathers the fragments of a life undone and remade.Her poems move through the silence of endings, the relentless weight of parenting through grief, and the fragile light discovered in the act of carrying on. With unflinching honesty and lyrical grace, she offers a glimpse into the breaking and the becoming, the ache and the after.For readers navigating loss, love, or survival, Lanterns is both a confession and a companion. A reminder that resilience is not perfect or polished, but steady, imperfect, and enduring. Poetry on the journey through divorce, motherhood, and resilience. Lanterns is a confession and a companion. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Lanterns (Paperback)
• Publisher: Ida Rae Publishing
• Publication Date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 13: 9798994379721
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: new

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Synopsis

This poetry collection is about strength and survival and finding imperfect joy.

Some of these poems make me cringe when I reread them. Not because they're wrong but because they were written without distance, without polish, without protection. They were written exactly as I felt in those moments, unfiltered. And sometimes, when I come back to them I don't cringe.

I leave the poems the way they were written on purpose. I don't revise the discomfort out of them. I don't smooth the edges. Because those feelings were real, and they were permissible and honest as can be. They needed to exist on the page exactly as they existed inside me. Learning to let them stay has been part of learning to accept the full spectrum of who I am.

This collection isn't a performance of healing. It's a record of it: awkwardness, intensity, tenderness, and all.

Writing was how I survived those moments. Reading them now is how I recognize the deep love I have for myself.

I'm sharing this book in the hope that someone else recognizes themselves here, even in the parts that feel embarrassing, too much, or unfinished. Especially in those parts.