Notes from a Stressed-out Teen

How does one navigate life? This is a question asked by most teenagers on the planet, as they step on the edge of being an adult. This is a question I’ve asked myself for the longest time, as I traversed breakups and fought exams, questioned the very existence of my meaning, which I then expressed in these poems and extracts from my diary.

The pages inside this book are windows into my soul. Little cries for help from the past couple of years. The paper these poems were written on listened to me when no one else was there.

And now, I hope the words on the paper speak to people, help them realise they’re not alone, promote them to seek help and possibly inspire them to live more.

These poems are not just poems. They’re words from my soul.

Noah Grant Sanz is an English/Spanish writer, born in Cambridge. At 14 years old, he began writing poetry to help him deal with anxiety and other mental problems. Heavily inspired by romantic poets, such as Thomas Hardy, and more modern poets, such as Sylvia Plath and Charles Bukowski, he used this inspiration to write about his personal life managing to finish his first book Notes from a Stressed-out teen in November 2022, aged 15.