During the course of your creative journey, you have moved between prose and poetry mediums. I studied literature, kept reading, writing, working on my craft, and it was after almost a decade of working and reworking a manuscript that my first book, On Cleaning Bookshelves, was published in 2001. I merely happened to be one of those who didn’t give up. I believe many young people are drawn to the form.
These were the two primary aspects of poetry – its formal exuberance and the way it led me to places of complex, multi-dimensional truth - that fascinated me. Later I found that poetry was also the most direct verbal route to myself that I knew. It was capable of leaping and diving, tripping and racing and pausing in all kinds of exciting ways. I was excited by it because it seemed to be a dangerous, unpredictable language. I was drawn to poetry as a child, and I guess the fascination never really went away. Why did you adopt the medium of poetry to express your feelings, thoughts and emotions? What was it about the medium that attracted you to it? The first book you authored was a book of poetry ( On Cleaning Bookshelves).
Thank you so much Ms Subramaniam for taking time out to talk to The Wise Owl.
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