Unveiled & Unbound: Poems of Growth & Healing is an intimate poetry collection by South Africanwriter Nobuhle Z. Mabaso, drawn from years of private journal entries, reflections, questions,prayers and fragments written while she was still living the experiences they contained.Moving through grief, longing, self-abandonment, silence, rage, tenderness, spirituality andself-recognition, the collection traces an emotional journey from unravelling to release, from truthsthat cannot yet be spoken to the clarity that makes new boundaries possible.At its heart, Unveiled & Unbound is about coming home to oneself.But this is not a story of becoming perfectly healed.Returning to her original journals for the paperback edition, Mabaso strips back poetic ornamentand allows the raw voice of those pages to lead: sometimes certain, sometimes confused;observant, searching, funny, profane, hopeful and still figuring it out.The result is an emotional memoir told through poetry - one that explores what it means to hearyourself, witness yourself, choose yourself, and learn to belong to yourself without erasing theversions of you who came before.For readers navigating healing, identity, loss, self-worth and the complicated work of knowingoneself, these poems offer something quieter than answers:a place to recognise yourself, and permission to come home as many times as youneed to.