heart-stop.

 

Poetry | Travel | Literary Memoir

 

What happens when you spend a decade leaving?

 

heart-stop. is a debut collection of poetry about one-way tickets, foreign lands, old flames, and learning how much of the past can fit within a suitcase.

 

Written across twelve countries and countless departures, Violet Vale chronicles a restless nomadic expedition — maps run out, homes disappear, lovers become ghosts, and memory transforms the places we leave behind.

 

Part travelogue, part love letter, heart-stop. is for anyone who has gone looking for another life — and wondered, somewhere along the way, what it might mean to finally arrive.