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drenched thoughts
Prescribed as mandatory reading in an elective course on Multicultural Society at Utrecht University, The Netherlands.
drenched thoughts is a poetry-prose genre collaborative, philosophical diasporic novel meandering amidst thoughts, emotions, and feelings. It begins after its protagonist Priya’s son gets married in Chicago, sixteen years after they leave India to create new, peaceful, conflict-free lives. Grounded in the reality of a broken past, the novel epitomizes determination, tenacity, and gratitude.
drenched thoughts: a novel
Authorspress, 2023
Prescribed as mandatory reading in an elective course on Multicultural Society at Utrecht University, The Netherlands.
drenched thoughts is a poetry-prose genre collaborative, philosophical diasporic novel meandering amidst thoughts, emotions, and feelings. It begins after its protagonist Priya’s son gets married in Chicago, sixteen years after they leave India to create new, peaceful, conflict-free lives. Grounded in the reality of a broken past, the novel epitomizes determination, tenacity, and gratitude.
Kisses at the Espresso Bar
Kelsay Books, 2022
Finalist for the Rabindranath Tagore Literary Prize, 2023
This is an ekphrastic prose poetry collection. Poems in this volume are like pieces of artwork representative of the real-surreal layered world in which we reside. The book contains poems inspired by images of seven artists’ work from around the world who are mixed media artists, sculptors, painters, quilt artists, visual artists, and graphite pencil artists. Thematically, the prose poems present poetic questioning and deliberations on injustice, love, rejection, conceit, life, motherhood, environment, and gender bias, among others.
What's wrong with us Kali women?
Kelsay Books, 2021
Nominated as the best poetry book for 2021 for British Ars Notoria
and prescribed as mandatory reading in an elective course on Multicultural Society at Utrecht University, The Netherlands.
Inspired by the strength of Hinduism’s many female goddesses, especially Kali, and by the author journeys across the world, prose poems in this book portray the perceptions of a diaspora Indian woman on immigration, domestic abuse, rape, aging, Covid19, single motherhood, love and sensuality, death, racism, sexism, environment, alien life, environment, poverty, and much more.
This collection of prose poems was nominated by Cyril Dabydeen, Guyanese Indian Canadian & Ottawa poet laureate emeritus & novelist . Its prescribed as mandatory reading in an elective course on Multicultural Society at Utrecht University, The Netherlands.
Hey, Spilt Milk Is Spilt, Nothing Else
Authorspress, 2018
This is Anita Nahal’s second book of poems. The first, Initiations, was published in 1988. In between life took over, and while Nahal kept the creative vigil going, it is only now that she felt comfortable in bringing all the poems she had been writing for the past twenty years, together in her second book.
Soul Spaces: Poems on Cities, Towns and Village
Authorspress, 2022
Arising from the perils of the recent pandemic, spaces and places have come to acquire a new and profound or altered significance in the imagination of the poets in this volume from the US, Canada, India, Australia, the UK, South Africa, the Caribbean, and the Kingdom of Bahrain!
ISBN 978-93-5529-746-4
Editors: Anita Nahal, Basudhara Roy, Cyril Dabydeen, E. Ethelbert Miller, Jaydeep Sarangi, Malashri Lal, Nandini Sahu, & Swati Pal
Initiations
Pitamber, New Delhi, 1988
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