3 Review(s)

Ms. Mathai?s poetry at times develops a taut intensity of feeling and a matching tightness of form that tempt one to rank it with the highest achievements in Indian English poetry. Krishna Rayan in The Poetry Chronicle. Tender and evocative lyrics.. a skilful and accomplished poet who brings to her task great sensitivity, an awareness of both the possibilities and limitations of her poetic vocabulary, and a preference for sharply defined images and metaphors. Laurence S. Fallis in Books Abroad, USA. A harmlessly enervating nymphomanic boldness breathes life and charm into her material, and her organisation has the sustained power of keeping itself strange and unfamiliar every time. M. Bhoopathy in The Indian Review of Books. Sujatha Mathai?s poems are lyrical and meditative at the same time.. There is a fluency and meditativeness about her poetry, not just in the cadence but also in the flow of thought and how a metaphor moves to a conclusion.Keki Daruwalla in Introduction to Life ? On My Side of the Street, pub. by Sahitya Akademi. About Author - Anna Sujatha Mathai holds a first class masters in English literature from the University of Delhi and Bangalore, and a Postgraduate degree in Social Studies from the University of Edinburgh, Scotland. She has four collections of poetry in English. Her earlier books are Crucifixions, We, The Unreconciled, The Attic of Night, and Life?On My Side of the Street. Many of the poems have been translated into several European and Indian languages.