Three years after her debut, Gemma Hayden returns with her second poetry collection,
With Love & Rage
. While her first book,
When I Outgrew You: A Collection of Poetry
, explored themes of self-discovery, interpersonal connection, and cultural identity, this new collection narrows its focus to Hayden's romantic spirit. Shaped by a series of transformative relationships,
emerges from moments of frustration and vulnerability-poems written and rewritten in the aftermath of love gained and lost. Blending confessional verse, journal-like intimacy, and unsent letters, Hayden crafts a body of work that is at once deeply introspective and universally relatable.
invites readers to not only revisit their own past loves, but also to reflect on the versions of themselves that existed within those relationships.