Larkspur Lane

Prufrock, in his love song, sees the mermaids ride seaward. What he does not see is the left behind broken seashore. Nivedita Dey, in her poems, tries to "fix with cello tape this vast broken seashore". There are wordplays, puns, enjambments and literary allusions in her poems, but what is paramount is the searing honest expression of poetry. Here she presents "human maps" in her “glass jarhead” before the “hourglass inverts to an all-encompassing end”. Read her before it is late.

– Amit Shankar Saha, Poet, Assistant Professor at Seacom Skills University, Author of Balconies of Time, Fugitive Words, Illicit Poems.

The mind’s a maze where our deepest thoughts often crouch; thoughts we hide even from

ourselves. Nivedita’s poetry brings them out; rawest wounds are bared; the reader’s left out of

breath. Then, her poems gently raise us from our hurting selves and show us the doorway

to the universe of light and hope. Larkspur Lane is a collection that speaks in a voice that’s

neither sympathizing nor judgmental. It doesn’t speak from a high pedestal. It’s a voice that we hear every day but don’t listen to really. It’s our very own inner voice, and it tells us we’re never alone.

– Ananya Chatterjee, Poet, Translator, Software Professional at Oracle, Author of The Poet & His Valentine, a collection of verses, Another Soliloquy, The Blind Man’s Rainbow, Un-building Walls and other books.