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Every Elegy Is A Love Poem

by Sneha Subramanian Kanta
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Book cover type: Paperback
  • ISBN13: 9781917617604
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Broken Sleep Books
  • Publisher Imprint: Broken Sleep Books
  • Publication Date:
  • Pages: 60
  • Original Price: GBP 9.99
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 68 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Subjects & Themes / Political & Protest

In Every Elegy Is a Love Poem, Sneha Subramanian Kanta writes grief as an ecology of continuance, where a mother's death sets language moving through rain, roots, whale-song and the salt grammar of oceans. Built from un-elegies, invocations, fragments after Sappho, mythic and documentary textures, and a late epistolary sequence, the book keeps returning to water as both witness and archive, a medium that carries migration, inheritance, and the pressure of history without offering the comfort of resolution. Tamil, Hindi and English co-exist as lived strata rather than ornament, and the poems' lucid intensities move between domestic ritual, spiritual enquiry and climate unease with an exact, luminous music. What emerges is a formally varied, emotionally unsentimental work that understands devotion as attention, and love as the ongoing labour of naming what remains.

Kanta, Sneha Subramanian: - Born in Mumbai, Sneha Subramanian Kanta is an award-winning writer, academician, and editor. She is the 2025 Woodhaven Artist in Residence at The University of British Columbia Okanagan. She received a 2025 Civic Award of Recognition from the city of Mississauga and a 2025 Cultural Award from Heritage Mississauga. Her work has been anthologized widely including in The Penguin Book of Indian Poets. Her work has been recognized and supported by Canada Council for the Arts, Ontario Arts Council, The Charles Wallace Trust, The Vijay Nambisan Foundation, and British Council. She is an editor at Parentheses Journal.

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