Strength Through Poetry, 1e

Crilly
Hammersmith Books
120 pages
ISBN: 9781781612866
January 2026

Samantha Crilly's first collection of poems - Hope through Poetry - was inspired by her personal experience of mental illness and recovery, and by what she had learned from friends and family. Five years after it was first enthusiastically received, she returns with a new collection that draws on her ongoing recovery together with her work as an actor and script writer raising awareness of mental health struggles. Giving honest and relatable insights into what it means to have a mental illness and what causes and triggers may lie behind it, these insightful poems are here as comforting companions and to promote understanding and acceptance.