In these lush and gorgeously written poems, Umang Kalra explores relationships, grief and the effect of the internet on poetic expression in the era of Covid-19.
Kashiana Singh’s tightly knit poems, ‘Kindling healing’ and ‘The night spills’, explore night and day in all their haunting nuance and mesmerising movement.
In Nora Nadjarian’s beautiful poem, ‘Letters to Parajanov’, a speaker awaits a bird’s return with news from her homeland and recalls words lost and gained in this new ‘country’.
Tript Kaur’s poem, ‘Grandmothers’, tenderly depicts the relationship between a granddaughter and her grandmother; between past pain and the hopes and fears of the next generation.