Light & Line Drawings

This book is a dual-voice poetry collection exploring lives on completely different continents. Light and Line Drawings is a dialog between two poets who, in a testament to current times, are friends despite having met in person just once. Dealing with three broad themes of Nature, life, and relationships, the poems in this book flow like conversations, questioning and echoing each other’s perspectives.
Through their journeys, both poets share poetic exchanges in contemporary thought. For the reader, this often creates a space for introspection.

Excerpts from endorsements:

In this luminous collection of over sixty poems, Sangita Kalarickal and Vidya Shankar trace the contours of nature, love, loss, resilience, and the inner landscapes that shape who we
become.

~ Amanda Bailey, president of the League of Minnesota Poets

Mesmerized by the metaphors of beauty and truth, we stare in amazement, unblinking!

~ Jaydeep Sarangi, a fellow poet and poetry editor anchored in Kolkata, India. His latest collection is the halfconfession (2024)

The title poem, a jointly written haibun, is a ‘camino’, a walk towards light. This is the intended direction the poems lead us towards.

~ Kavita Ezekiel Mendonca, author of Family Sunday and other poems, Light of the Sabbath, and Nissim Ezekiel, Poet & Father

From friendship, love, heartache, and wonder, Shankar and Kalarickal deliver a moving collection that had me in tears and jubilation in equal measure.

~ Reid Hepworth, author of the improbability of sea monkeys and loss is a river

To enter these pages is to wander through a landscape of haunting beauty where
the boundaries between the poets dissolve, leaving only the pure, resonant language of the soul.

~ Vinita Agrawal, poet and editor, author of Eartha