Forget-Me-Not Water Sun Blue

By Esther Argent

In the author's note that prefaces her debut poetry collection, Argent writes:

The title for this collection of poems was originally intended to be Under My Skin, relating to an undercurrent running through the collection: everything I've had to reclaim or unlearn, the emotions and words unspoken left below the surface, the shadows of mental illness that lurk in my mind, the ebb and flow of independence and loneliness that seem to have permeated my early twenties, the curious and messy experience of being an embodied human being in a society that constantly tells you how that should be -

and the constant desire to escape from it all.

It begins with a fusion of fiction and fact, proceeding to navigate realism and romanticism. I consequently renamed it Forget-Me-Not Water Sun Blue, after a poem written part way between daydream and realisation.
Forget-Me-Not Water Sun Blue contains poems telling a coming-of-age story from my early 20s, particularly my 22nd year, with some lingering reflections on my teenage years.

It's a love letter to walking through the woods in my hometown or the familiar yet sometimes haunting train journey to my university town, and to day trips I'd spend roaming city streets chaotically for miles while anxious from too much caffeine and refusing to spend money I didn't have on public transport.

It's about how messy the experiences of breaking and healing are, and about embracing that constant chaotic death and rebirth of life.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0BW23H17F
• ISBN13: 9798375938479
• Release Date: February 2023
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 110 Pages
• Weight: 0.38 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.0" x 9.0"