Hereafter

by Sabitha Satchi

Hereafter is astonishing as a first volume, each poem adroitly handled with the freshness of youth and the ability only maturity grants. It could stand out with the best poetry on equal terms . I found each poem tightly structured, with not a word out of place. Only a gifted poet assured of her abilities would attempt to ‘tease the contours of a poetic line… to coax it out of its taut shell.’ Stuck in my memory are the lines from an anti war poem:

where every supper could be the last / where every candle is lit for the dead / where every prayer is a cry of the living / where every string is tuned to a requiem.

-Keki N. Daruwalla

Sophisticated, intelligent poetry for an international readership, marked by a flair for history and genuine compassion for sentient beings. Sabitha is as much at home with the ordinary as she is with the bizarre:

At two at night

a bloated Lord Krishna

floats up, dead

in the Yamuna.

One is not likely to forget such lines in a hurry. What a debut! Where does she go from here? I’m already looking forward to her next book.

-Gabriel Rosenstock

98 pages, Paperback

Published August 1, 2021

Reviews

[Anshul · Rating 3 out of 5]

Perhaps after everything
we fade and dissolve
into the final
Great Perhaps

must I come back to this-