Woman,
Nature,
Love

About the book

Woman, Nature, Love is a collection of poems that move through grief, longing, wildness, and return. Each poem is a small act of listening — to the body, to the land, to the voice that speaks before the mind has found its words.

The collection moves in three movements: Woman — the interior life, the body, the becoming; Nature — the world outside as mirror and medicine; Love — not only romantic love, but the love that holds grief, the love that survives loss, the love that is, finally, turned inward.

These are poems for the woman who walks outside when she cannot find words. For the one who has been unnamed, and is now being named.

"She is not a character. She is a pronoun — a direction. She is the woman who reads these poems and recognises herself."

— from the author's note

A note from Nina

I wrote this book in the years when I was learning to stay. Not in a place, but in myself. The poems came the way things come when you stop trying to make them — in the early morning, in the middle of a walk, in the space between one breath and the next.

Nature was my teacher throughout. Not nature as metaphor, but nature as fact — the way a tree stands in wind without bracing, the way water finds its level without effort, the way a season ends and the world does not mourn it but simply turns toward the next one.

If you find yourself in these pages, know that you were already here before I wrote them. I was only listening for you.