I wrote a book of poems.
It’s been a while since I’ve posted anything here, and it’s taken me a while to write this post. The sharp chill of winter. Work-life imbalance. Laziness. Procrastination. You get the drift.
Nostalgic for a Place Never Seen, my debut poetry collection, came out in November last year from Copper Coin Publishing.
I’ve been writing poetry on a regular basis for only the last four years, so having this collection fills me with both wonder and gratitude. Wonder because of the serendipitous manner in which stray poems flocked together to build a nest. Gratitude for how that nest found its tree — the publisher.
Nostalgic for a Place Never Seen traverses multiple geographies — temporal and metaphysical. Divided into eight sections: Dwellings — Temporary and Permanent; Places, Faces, Traces; Scents, Tastes, Textures; Seasons of the Heart; Water, Earth, Air, Fire; The Humming Octave; The Wordsmiths; and Movements in and out of Time — the poems in this collection ponder on themes such as migration and displacement, finding home, food, textiles, music, love and nature.
Read a selection of the poems in Scroll.
And in Usawa.
Read a review in The Tribune.
Here it is on Goodreads.
I hope you’ll give this book a read. If you’re in India, you’ll find the book in store (and online) at Midland Books, Full Circle, and Bahrisons.
If you wanted to buy it online, you could do so from:
Copper Coin Publishing (India and international)
Amazon.in (India)
Flipkart (India)
From the book’s back cover:
Thank you so much. I can’t wait to hear your thoughts about the poems.
Bhaswati Ghosh 