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This book is about the progression of Life, its frailty and on the other hand, its strength in bonding with an Infinite Power that binds us all. The poems subtly hint at how past, present and future are just milestones in our long and winding journey. Life is but a fleeting shadow, leaving telltale marks of its existence behind.The poems speak passionately with a clear resounding voice and at times, agonisingly about the limitations of mortal life and the longing to transcend its true meaning and beat the odds.
Author Biography
Nanaimo poet and writer, Kamal Parmar has been passionately involved in writing since the last 20 years. Her genre is poetry and she has a few books, both poetry and creative non-fiction, to her credit. Her poems are simple though poised and evocative enough to set the reader thinking. She has a number of poetry publications in reputed Canadian literary journals and magazines. She is a member of a several writers’ organizations and Writers Guilds and is also a manuscript evaluator in one of them. She is currently, an active Board member of the B.C Federation of Writers, and was also Secretary of The Ontario Poetry Society, while in Ontario and has also given poetry readings in various libraries, in ON, SK and in BC.
Currently, she is an Associate member of the League of Canadian Poets , a Board member of Federation of BC Writers and a member of The Writers Union of Canada , the Canadian Authors Association as well as of Haiku Canada. She is the current Poet Laureate for the City of Nanaimo.
Reviews
In Kamal Parmar’s “What does the wind say?”, Nanaimo’s Poet Laureate wields her words deftly, observing in one slim volume the passing of calendar seasons, and the spring-through-winter cycle of a life. The poems read like intimate diary notes, slipping backwards and forwards from sweet to bittersweet, from the spring of girlhood through “a few milestones to go.” Beautifully rendered lines, exquisite and worth a little trip into reverie and back.
Jacqueline Carmichael is the author of Heard Amid the Guns: True Stories from the Western Front 1914-1918 and Tweets from the Trenches: Little True Stories of Life & Death on the Western Front.
The poems reflect a sense of honesty in many dimensions and a desire to seek more than ample answers while keeping any answers simple. This is a hard challenge, honestly and bravely met.
a poet from Saskatoon. SK
The poems speak passionately with a clear resounding voice and at times, agonisingly about the limitations of mortal life and the longing to transcend its true meaning and beat the odds.
a poetry lover from ON
“Poet Laureate Kamal Parmar’s work is like the childhood home-cooking you wish you could enjoy throughout life – nourishing, comforting, rejuvenating – and invariably shared with love,”
Bill Arnott, award-winning author of Gone Viking: A Travel Saga and Gone Viking II: Beyond Boundaries.
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