Empty Vessels – Poetry Collection

To my fellow people watchers, these poems are for you. A tapestry of fleeting moments and unfamiliar souls we pass by each day. Through the years I’ve learned that if you sit and watch for long enough, people turn into strange phantoms you feel compelled to write poems about.

Empty Vessels is my debut poetry collection published by Barnard Publishing. The collection explores the loneliness epidemic through the lens of strangers observed in day to day life.


Empty Vessels questions what it means to haunt and whether our ghosts are always behind us; there is a profound, visceral power in hauntings of the future – the unlived possibilities for which Emms reaches during this vulnerable, intriguing collection.”

-Briony Collins