Books
I’m just trying to escape reality.
Juniper Adams didn’t have a good childhood, and now she is ready to start talking about it. The Echoes at Night is a poetry collection that discusses multiple topics, including depression, suicide, and abuse (by a father and boyfriend).
The Recovery: A Process is a chapbook that contains ten poems, one of which was published in the third issue of Spray Paint Magazine.
This collection captures the “slice of life” of someone living with a mental illness, such as depression.
if you wanna know more about me, then please, you should just ask.
Split up into three different parts—shelf one- the night watcher, shelf two- the poisonous antidote, and shelf three- the illusion of talk therapy—; Poetry on the Bookcase is a coming-of-age poetry collection about the effects and experience of an abusive relationship, suicide and suicide ideation, the mundane of everyday living, and the life before (and slightly after) that short-lasting romantic relationship.
In Chosen – A Child of Assault, a stranger assaulted sixteen-year-old Janice Shepherd in her bedroom one night. She conceived and delivered her son, James, but never revealed his father to him.
Now, at nineteen, James’ job as a copy typist forces her to tell him about that night. What will he do with this knowledge? Will his faith in God make a difference to him and his mom now that he knows about his birth?
They say not to let your heart bleed onto the pages, but here I am doing it anyway.
When my well is overflowing with star-covered words, my fingers bleed them out. They implant themselves on white or cream paper, crying out, wanting to be heard like a hungry child in the middle of the night. But then the words flutter away like a cabbage white butterfly during Spring.
They’re supposed to come back. I need them to come back.
Talk Therapy is an open letter that captures a sliver of what it’s like living with a mind that’s a black monster. Talk Therapy is also Angel-Clare Linton’s second poetry collection.
Coming Soon
Chosen – A Child of Abuse by A. M. Linton
Sixteen-year-old Justine lives with her father, mother, and younger siblings. Money is tight for the family, and getting food to eat on most days is challenging. Additionally, her mother expresses her frustration with her living conditions by abusing Justine and her siblings.
However, one day, after losing her baby, Justine walked away from her home to live with her grandfather, who lived close to her family home. While living there, she learned more about her mother, met a new friend and found the courage to break up with her boyfriend. There, Justine also met her Saviour.
Bandages and Bullet Wounds by Angel-Clare Linton
I thought I wasn’t gonna make it.
As I lay in my bed in the middle of the night with my blanket up to my chin, I wanted to hide from the world, away from the sea of never-ending dark blue ocean. I also wanted an escape, a freedom away from my current life that was a well of thick, black words, and I was at the bottom where I couldn’t see my way out and where people couldn’t hear my screams.
As I lay in my bed with my blanket up to my chin, I thought I wouldn’t make it in life since my life felt like a never-ending downstream river. I thought I’d die in that river before I’d be able to rise to the peak of a mountain, staring down at what I’ve accomplished.
I thought I wasn’t gonna make it, but now I’m going to try because trying and failing is better than not trying at all.
Bandages and Bullet Wounds is Angel-Clare Linton’s third poetry collection.