Review: A Blur of a Woman

Published on: 25 Jan 2025

Jaydeep Sarangi reviews A Blurb of a Woman by Basudhara Roy in The Hindu.

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Emotionally intelligent, her poems take us beyond mourning for personal losses and absences. What should poetry mean to a middle-aged woman who is to play many roles every day? Roy’s poems unfold her thoughts and impressions gently; the tone is balanced and she expertly underscores the sense of menace and oppression threatening to engulf the multi-layered female self. Her readers are startled by how these poems are stitched together in a language that is tender and humble, both aesthetically and functionally.

Poetry for Roy, like for the great Pablo Neruda, is about the truth of the moment. Her soft, soothing and soulful poems lift the human condition with deep thoughts into words where the language of the heart is a poem. She writes the universe on the walls. Jamshedpur should be proud to have a poet who writes in the intersection between the personal and the public.

Read the full review here.

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