The Lady from Across the Sea – A Collection of Love, Loss, and the Unraveling of Time
Rebecca Rijsdijk’s second poetry collection, The Lady from Across the Sea, is in love with a world fractured into a glorious prism of humanity.
Rebecca Rijsdijk’s second poetry collection, The Lady from Across the Sea, is in love with a world fractured into a glorious prism of humanity. Each poem is a tide pulling you deeper, a whisper carried across oceans, a glimpse into lives entwined with longing, resilience, and quiet revolution.
About the Book
Written between 2014 and 2018, many of these poems were born in London, a city where love and loss are felt in the spaces between crowded trains and quiet corners of the Thames. Some poems celebrate love—the kind that catches you unexpectedly at Bethnal Green tube station—while others mourn the love that boarded a train out of there. The Lady from Across the Sea is a collection that invites readers to surrender to the waves, to let themselves be carried by the raw honesty of heartbreak, healing, and self-discovery.
What You’ll Find in This Collection
Intimate Vignettes – Each poem is a snapshot of a moment suspended in time—of fleeting love, the ache of nostalgia, and the quiet resilience of those who carry their past like salt in their pockets.
A Deep Emotional Current – Rijsdijk writes with a rare vulnerability, capturing the echoes of love lost, the weight of memory, and the beauty of imperfection.
Themes of Identity and Change – From crowded London streets to the wild freedom of the sea, the collection explores what it means to belong—to a place, a person, or simply to oneself.
A Love Letter to the Unseen and the Forgotten – The mothers, the lovers, the ones who disappear into the background—Rijsdijk renders them in such clear tones and immersive scenes that they linger, long after the last page is turned.
Praise for the Book
"Rijsdijk renders the power of the mothers, the tragedy of the lovers, and the struggle of the forgotten in such clear tones and immersive scenes that she gives her readers permission to surrender to the waves." – Sean Felix
Who is This Book For?
If you have ever loved deeply, lost yourself in the arms of another, or found pieces of yourself scattered across cities you once called home, The Lady from Across the Sea will speak to you. This is a book for the ones who feel deeply, who have been shaped by distance and devotion, and who know that love—whether held onto or let go—is never wasted.
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The Lady from Across the Sea is a love letter to those we’ve left behind, and to the versions of ourselves we’ve had to say goodbye to.
Get your copy today and let the waves take you where you need to go.