The poems of Arundhathi Subramaniam's Love without a Story celebrate an expanding kinship: of passion and friendship, mythic quest and modern-day longing, in a world animated by dialogue and dissent, delirium and silence. Circling themes of intimacy and time, they return to the urgency of conversation: that fragile bridge across the frozen attitudes that divide our world. But at the heart of the collection is a deeper preoccupation, with those blurry places where humans might walk with gods, where the body might touch the beyond, where the enchanted might intersect effortlessly with the everyday. Where one stumbles upon what the poet simply calls 'love without a story'. Arundhathi Subramaniam's previous book from Bloodaxe, When God Is a Traveller, was shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize. Love without a Story is her fourth collection of poetry. Her earlier work is available in Where I Live: New & Selected Poems.
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(@BloodaxeBooks, 25 November 2020, ebook, 110 pages, borrowed from @natpoetrylib via @OverDriveLibs)
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This is a new poet for me. I really loved Love without a Story. I will check out the poet's other collections at some point. I'm in for a treat if this collection is anything to go by. The poems cover subjects featured many times in poetry collections such as passion, friendship, love, identity and searching for your place in the world. What makes these poems unique is the poet's style, use of language, myth and imagery which makes these poems rich, varied and really quite beautiful at times. I loved every poem.
