songs of youth

By Téa Nicolae

This is a collection of poetry written between the ages of sixteen and twenty. Brian Molko of Placebo once said that, when you are a teenager, you react to the world that surrounds you with great emotionality and intensity, with full heart. He mused that growing older is a process of finding semblances of sanity. This collection aims to illustrate exactly that; it is not written by an adult looking back with maturity, nor tenderness to their early years, but by the teenager in the midst of experiencing the turbulent highs and lows of being thrown into life. It is structured in three sections: 'teenage angst', 'my loss is my root' and 'at last, light', which chronicle the journey to adulthood through churn, grief, and joy.

This collection explores the beginning of the search for the 'I'.

About the author:
T?a Nicolae is a Romanian poetess and scholar-practitioner living in the United Kingdom. She holds a B.A. in Film and Creative Writing and an M.A. in Religious Studies from Lancaster University. She is currently completing her second M.A. in the Writing of Poetry and Literary Translation at Warwick University and will soon commence a Ph.D. at Edinburgh University with a thesis centred on the Indian epic poem the Mahābhārata. T?a writes devotional (bhakti) poetry as well as confessional poetry, and her main research interests are the Mahābhārata, Śāktism, and non-dual philosophy.

Cover art by Holly Robinson.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0C2SH6KN5
• ISBN13: 9798392403752
• Release Date: April 2023
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 134 Pages
• Weight: 0.31 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.0" x 8.0"