Title: Silent Dreams
Author: Helle Gade
Rating: 5/5 Stars

“A mixed collection of poetry that visits Nordic mythology, simple pleasures, darkness, love and pain.” (description from Goodreads)

Even with me being a poet, I don’t pick up many poetry collections to review. But I’m starting to find some great collections that I can pick up and can’t seem to put them down. Silent Dreams is one of those.

I was surprised when I finished, because I read it “cover-to-cover” (ebooks don’t have covers, silly me). I rarely have the attention span to read more than a few poems at a time, even when it’s a collection from one of my favorites. Gade’s words sucked me in and didn’t let me go until the very end.

I enjoyed that there was a great mixture of themes throughout, along with a little treat at the end. The last two poems were…