‘The Saree Shop’ Review by Alan Baker
Leafe Press
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Review of ‘The Saree Shop’ by Shringi Kumari, pub. Speculative Books. 86pp. £7.99 — by Alan Baker
Shringi Kumari is an Indian poet currently resident in the UK. This collection is dedicated to the poet’s mother, and celebrates the women of South Asia, investigates their place in a patriarchal society and addresses the relationship between different generations of women. The focus is on gender politics as well as post-colonialism and the experience of a young Indian woman in a westernised society. But the poems are in no way programmatic or formulaic. On the contrary, the writer never forgets that she is writing poetry, that is, the beauty and ambiguity of language is foregrounded, along with sense that its rhythm is a physical thing associated with speech and with the…
