Description
POSTCARD POEMS is Mugdha Sinha’s debut collection of epigrammatic poems focussed on love, loss, longing and learning. Her poems bear the weight of pain and pleasure with equal ease, offering love in exchange for pain and poems in exchange for love. The poems are raw in their feelings and ripe in their awakening, sprinkled with wit and wisdom. The choice of form and style is a return to childhood innocence, where the easy light-heartedness balances the gravitas. The address is universal, and the stamp is uniquely hers. Light and luminous; pithy but deep.
Collecting poetic shards of experience in short, impactful lines, Postcard Poems expresses love, regret, and longing. Mugdha Sinha’s work delves deeply into emotions recollected in tranquility, and distils their power in simple yet earnestly meaningful language. — Dr Shashi Tharoor.
These postcard poems of love and longing have many memorable lines — sometimes the love you cannot have is the only love you ever want and p r o l o n g ed silence speaks/ l o n g er than speech. — Abhay K
Mugdha Sinha is a writer of mixed pedigree and international travels. She alternates between writing sarkari note sheets and poetry. Her poems were first published in college by the iconic Kamla Das as the poetry editor of Femina, igniting a publication spree in various English journals including the Indian Literature by Sahitya Akademi. As the elected Literary Secretary of the IAS Association, Rajasthan she has been curating book author conversations for the last four years where she has moderated more than a hundred sessions with renowned Indian and foreign authors and has collaborated with Bonjour India, Siyahi Write Circle, Valley of Words, Poetry Couture and City Book Leaders. She has been a speaker at the Jaipur Literature Festival. For the Bonjour India Festival 2022, she recently curated a two-day open mike poetry on City for All at Bikaner House, New Delhi. She also doodles meditative mandalas and paints wine-vodka bottles under her brand name bottle_is_canvas. A relentless bibliophile who runs an annual book reading challenge on her Instagram handle @bookspk2020. She is an officer of the Indian Administrative Service and this is her first book of poems in English.