Subliminal Dust
Silence is never silent, so long as there is a listening ear.
In her newest collection of poetry, Pooja Mittal listens to the silences that populate our world — silences of discord and reverence, of consciousness and death. These vast and impenetrable silences fill the spaces within us and without; they give meaning to the substance of our lives, to the voices we hear and the words we speak. Here, in Subliminal Dust, Mittal transcribes those silences and gives them speech.
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Book Details
| Weight | 114 g |
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| Dimensions | 203 × 133 mm |
| Extent | 114 pages |
| Format | Paperback |
| Language | English |
| Genre | Poetry |
| Release date | 1 September 2010 |
| ISBN | 9780980690903 |
| Imprint | Odyssey Books |
About The Author
Pooja Mittal
Pooja Mittal was born in Lagos in 1983. Having lived in Nigeria, India and New Zealand, she has been widely published and anthologized in several countries. Her first book was published when she was 13, and at the age of 17, she was the youngest Featured Poet ever in the more than fifty-year history of Poetry New Zealand. She is the author of Diaries of a Marked Man and Musings on Poetry, both of which were published when she was 21 years old. In 2001, she was selected for UNESCO’s international project, Babele Poetica, and in 2007, she was featured in both The Best Australian Poetry 2007 and The Best Australian Poems 2007. Her poetry has been translated into Russian and performed at the Moscow International Poetry Festival. She lives in Melbourne, where she is completing her Ph.D at the Centre for Postcolonial Writing in Monash University.
Mark O’Dwyer –
I have read Subliminal Dust right through four times now and I am still finding lines to enjoy afresh and differently. The poems bring out voices in movements, whispers amid chaos, sounds trapped in small rocks, the stretching voids of unspoken emotions, terribly pale silences. Her images and unexpected juxtapostions set you loose from the usual tightness of linguistic meanings and adrift into the spaces and arenas of one’s own mind. A Poems that you can dip into over and over again