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A cornucopia of poetry. — Robert Yeo

This is food for the soul; part of a significant journey of discovery, recall and recovery. — Anne Lee Tzu Pheng

Wait for the beautiful epiphanies, even as time and space remain suspended in alluring lyric imagination. — Desmond Francis Xavier Kon Zhicheng-Mingdé

Each poem distills the complex emotions of leaving and arriving, of roots seeking new soil while branches reach toward changed skies. — Eric Tinsay Valles

Like seeds that grow into mighty banyan trees, Shilpa’s poems weave a tapestry of interwoven perspectives, akin to a reticulated network of aerial roots. — Ow Yeong Wai Kit

The poems display amazing manoeuvring of the terrain of the page and the mind — a gentle flow, akin to a river’s graceful swirl on its journey. — Vinita Agrawal

Shilpa Dikshit Thapliyal is an Indian-Singaporean poet and author whose work has appeared in the Practice Research & Tangential Activities (PR&TA) Journal, Quarterly Literary Review Singapore, The Best Asian Poetry, The Yearbook of Indian Poetry in English, Trivium, Little Things, to let the light in, Anima Methodi,Usawa Literary Journal and elsewhere. Poems from her previous collection Between Sips of Masala Chai (Kitaab International, 2019) have been selected for secondary school curriculum in Singapore. Her poem, ‘Hymn of Hope’, written during the pandemic for the ‘Homeward’ project, was performed by the Carnegie Mellon Philharmonic Orchestra. Some of her poems have been translated into Japanese, Spanish, and Chinese Ink-Art. Her poems have been nominated for the Best of the Net and Pushcart Prize and awarded second place in The Letter Review Prize, 2022. Aerial Roots, was awarded The Letter Review Prize for Unpublished Books, 2024. She has read poetry at the Singapore Writers Festival, the Kala Ghoda Arts Festival, Mumbai, Poetry on the Move, Canberra, The RevTen Radio, USA, and the Festival of Friendship (Revolution of Tenderness, USA). Shilpa has adjudicated several poetry competitions in Singapore, including the National Poetry Competition, the CLASS Poetry Competition, the National Poetry Recitation Competition, and the Write and Burn Spoken Word Competition. Shilpa serves on the organising committee of Poetry Festival Singapore as a poet and literary organiser. Born and raised in India, Shilpa completed her Master’s in Computer Management (MCM) from Symbiosis Institute of Computer Studies and Research, Symbiosis University, Pune. She worked in a leading IT services company before relocating to Singapore. She has recently completed her second Master’s, MA (Arts) from the Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. Shilpa resides in Singapore with her family.