**The Rooms I Leave Lit** is a collection of poems about love, loneliness, memory, ageing, exile, and the difficult journey back to oneself. Moving through childhood wounds, failed relationships, distant countries, empty houses, late-life desire, and the quiet rituals of survival, these poems trace a life shaped by leaving.Yet this is not a book of surrender. It is about the stubborn lights we keep burning after loss, the small proofs that we are still alive, and the courage required to enter the rooms of the past without becoming trapped inside them.Honest, intimate, and often painfully recognisable, this collection speaks for those who learned to disappear in order to survive, for those who have loved and lost, and for anyone still searching for a place, a person, or a version of themselves that feels like home. **825 characters including spaces.**
