![]() ![]() It was this easy-to-read, pared down style in her debut book milk and honey that catapulted her to early fame. The new collection follows Kaur’s now familiar brand of poetry-deeply personal verses written in a distinct lowercase style (like the Gurmukhi script), and steeped in themes of love, loss, healing, femininity and empowerment. ![]() If my future self had told me this, I would’ve never believed it,” says Kaur, over a phone call from Toronto. Now I’m writing poetry full-time, performing, and travelling the world. ![]() “This time three years ago, I was designing the cover of milk and honey and getting ready to self-publish it. According to recent reports, milk and honey, her first collection of poetry, has sold enough copies to put her ahead of ‘the next-best-selling work of poetry-Homer’s The Odyssey- by a factor of ten’. ![]() Today, Kaur is a New York Times bestselling poet and a spoken-word performer. Her father had fled to Canada as a refugee a month after she was born, joining numerous Sikhs who left their home state fearing persecution after the 1984 anti-Sikh riots. In the mid 90s, the then-three-year-old, along with her family, left her small village in Hoshiarpur to reunite with her father in Montreal. THE POEM, FROM Rupi Kaur’s new book the sun and her flowers (Simon & Schuster pages 256 Rs499) is a fitting depiction of her own journey as an immigrant from Punjab. Some of us just happen to leave entire countries ![]()
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