Review: Changing, Unchanging

Published on: 21 Nov 2024

The first review of Changing, Unchanging: New and Selected Poem by Anju Makhija is here, by Debasish Lahiri in London Grip, a forum for reviews of books, shows & events.

Anju Makhija’s voice in Changing, Unchanging is unrelenting. It does not allow the reader an easy retreat into the haven of beautiful images. It compels them to recognize that the perception of the ‘beautiful’ is evanescent, at best, caught as it is among moments that can range from the terrible and sordid to the routine and dull. Makhija’s articulation of reality, thus, seems a little ill-at-ease: neither lost in aesthetic rapture nor bedraggled by the meanness and squalor of the world of men. Her poetry is no low-ebb retreat. Instead, it is a restless and indefatigable attempt to rock every certainty, to prove that ‘beauty’ has its foundations in the mire and muck of cities and that the sky is often reflected in puddles and ditches in the slums of Dharavi (a district of Mumbai).

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