Poet | Writer | Editor
A 26 year old passionate poet, navigating my twenties and writing my heart out. Writing verse since began appreciating its intricacies, its emotions, its compact language and its disrupted syntax. And finally it became a favored medium of expression. Then playing with the words, festooning them with figures of speech and making it a code to be deciphered, became a hobby. Now I even believe that prose is not my cup of tea!
Welcome to my personal website. An archive of all my accomplishments so far. Do connect with me and check back for regular book reviews posted here by me.
Latest News
1. I was longlisted for the Glass House Poetry Award 2024.
2. I won the Verse of Silence Poetry Contest, part of Verse of Silence Online Fest, 2023.
3. I was a finalist in the U.S. based Lucky Jefferson’s 2023 Poetry and Prose Contest.
4. The U.S. based lit. mag., coalitionworks, which published a poem of mine (“the sunset story”) in January, 2023, has showcased my dream projects (my poetry collection and my Substack newsletter) on its website. Check it out and know more about my collection, A Leaf upon a Book (Leadstart publishers, 2022).
5. My poetry collection A Leaf upon a Book has been recommended among 7 poetry books by Indian poets that are a must read.
Book Recommendation for the Month
A Single Thread
It is 1932 and in the aftermath of the First World War, Violet Speedwell, mourning the loss of her fiancé and brother, is a ‘surplus woman’ — one of many such women who couldn’t find a husband since the War became a reason for the shortage of potential spouses.
“Tolerated with gentle exasperation by families, these women live at a time when society has rigid expectations of what a single woman might do with her life. Violet is about to challenge those restrictions.” Read the full review here.
Anam Tariq 