Stardust & Paper Cuts: A poetry collection

By Hiba Bekkour

Some things are not meant to be held onto.
Only wanted, again, and again, and again.

Stardust & Paper Cuts is a contemporary poetry collection exploring love, longing, heartbreak, and the quiet, complicated act of healing. It lingers in the space between desire and yearning, where the Almosts begin to ache more than the loss itself.

These poems move with a soft persistence, tracing devotion as it forms, deepens, and slowly sharpens at the edges. What begins as longing becomes something uglier, darker, something harder to name. Not quite love, not quite letting go... but something that stays.

There is no urgency to resolve it here. No easy closure. Only the steady pull of memory, emotion, and self-discovery, and the strange comfort of returning to what was never fully yours. again, and again, and again.

For readers drawn to modern, emotional poetry, this collection offers a quiet place to feel deeply, and perhaps recognize something of themselves along the way.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9920857106
• ISBN13: 9789920857109
• Release Date: October 2025
• Publisher: Vika Publishing
• Length: 88 Pages
• Weight: 0.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 5.5" x 8.5"