Royal Blue

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Pub Date 28 Jul 2024 | Archive Date 9 Aug 2024
Troubador | Troubador Publishing
Essays & Collections | Poetry & Verse

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Royal Blue is like a sad song we all intentionally put on when we feel bad in order to feel even worse. It’s a love letter to melancholy in all areas of life. Particularly love, because love is the one and only form of self-torment that humans choose to relive again and again.

But people enjoy reading those melancholic poems about a tempting self-destructive love, a rudderless road trip through life, and a distinct sense of absolute confusion about one’s purpose in this universe.

Read them just the way they were written - at 3 am, sitting on the floor next to an empty liquor glass and a full ashtray, questioning life choices and possibly listening to the cheesiest of love songs. This is poetry reminiscing about a love that has never been, places that no longer exist and a version of us that is long gone.

Royal Blue is like a sad song we all intentionally put on when we feel bad in order to feel even worse. It’s a love letter to melancholy in all areas of life. Particularly love, because love is the...

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A Note From the Publisher

Ellie Ilieva was born and raised in Bulgaria but has been living abroad for over a decade, studying and working in different countries across Europe. She has been writing and rhyming ever since she learned the alphabet, and so decided it was time to reveal this talent to a perhaps unfeeling world. She currently lives in the Netherlands, but is on the lookout for new adventures in search for inspiration.

Ellie Ilieva was born and raised in Bulgaria but has been living abroad for over a decade, studying and working in different countries across Europe. She has been writing and rhyming ever since she...

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EDITION Ebook
ISBN 9781805149149
PRICE £3.99 (GBP)
PAGES 72

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Royal Blue by Ellie Ilieva is a thought-provoking collection that leads us to ponder the very meaning of our existence and, more specifically, the pull that we repeatedly feel toward love, even though we have been bruised over and over again in our unrelenting pursuit. Like a melancholic stream of consciousness, these verses draw the reader into an abyss of self-examination and reflection, and I was submersed in their depths from the very first page. Ms Ilieva is a talent to watch. 4.5 stars

Many thanks to NetGalley and Troubador Publishing for an ARC.

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There is some really good poetry in here. I like that most of her poems rhyme and that they tend to have an existential theme.

I'd be happy to read more of her work.

Thank you to Netgalley and Troubador for the ARC

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