Nicotine

<p><strong>NICOTINE</strong><br><em>A Poetry Collection by Liam Reid</em></p><p><em>NICOTINE</em> is a raw burning-lipped confession. Across ninety-three pages of blood-slick stanzas and smoke-ring memories Liam Reid delivers a body of work that aches with love lust grief and the ghosts we let bite too deep.</p><p>Tinged with the scent of menthol kisses and heartbreak this collection explores the eroticism of emotional damage - where vampires leave bruises that blossom like guilt and ex-lovers haunt your hoodie your bed your bloodstream. Poems pulse between tenderness and toxicity caught in the liminal space between being needed and being consumed.</p><p>At its core <em>NICOTINE</em> is a portrait of obsessive love and its aftermath. Through elegies for old flames whispered prayers to girls named and brutal reckonings with selfhood Reid offers a voice both vulnerable and venomous - a boy in a hoodie trying to survive the aftertaste of intimacy.</p><p>Unapologetically queer deeply sensory and emotionally unfiltered <em>NICOTINE</em> is not a collection for children - it is a book for anyone who has ever loved too hard lost too much or kissed like they were trying to forget something.</p>