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These Are the Words

by Nikita Gill

Poems for finding a voice

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Poems for finding a voice

Nikita Gill’s illustrated poetry collection gathers reflections on experiences that can shape growing up: first love and breakups, anger and joy, family, and standing up for what matters. Organized around “seasons of the soul,” it also includes seasonal astrological poetry. Gill’s own illustrations accompany poems about self-expression, agency, and being true to oneself, giving the collection a clear focus on words as a way to explore difficult feelings and personal convictions.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Teens and young adults interested in poetry about identity and self-expression
  • Readers seeking poems on first love, breakups, family, anger, and joy
  • Readers interested in illustrated poetry and seasonal astrological themes

Themes

Self-expression and agencyLove and heartbreakFamily and belongingAnger, joy, and healingAstrology and the seasons

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Book overview

"A compassionate, restorative collection" Kirkus Reviews

From international poetry sensation Nikita Gill comes her highly anticipated YA debut These Are the Words: an empowering, feminist and beautifully illustrated poetry collection exploring all the things Nikita wished someone had told her when she was younger.

Reclaim your agency. Discover your power. Find the words.

Taking you on a journey through the seasons of the soul, in this collection Nikita gives you the words to help heal from your first breakup, to celebrate finding your family, to understand first love, to express your anger and your joy, to fight for what you believe in and to help you break some rules to be your truest self.

Gorgeously illustrated throughout by Nikita herself and featuring seasonal astrological poetry, this collection is an achingly beautiful, stunningly warm and fearless expression of truth from one of the most influential and well-known voices in modern poetry.

REMINDER FOR HEALING
You do not owe anyone your forgiveness.
The trees do not apologize to the wind that uproots them.
The rocks do not apologize to the erosion by the sea.
The stars do not apologize to the universe
when they are writhing and dying out.
And you are not obligated to forgive anyone
but yourself.

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