Amrita Sharma

Amrita Sharma is a Lucknow-based poet and writer. She has a PhD in English Literature from The University of Lucknow and is presently working as a Guest faculty member at the Indian Institute of Information Technology, Una, Himachal Pradesh. She has worked as a Fulbright Fellow at the Centre for the Study of Languages and Cultures, University of Notre Dame, USA. Her works have previously been published in several national and international journals. Her first collection of poems is titled The Skies: Poems and has been published as a part of ‘The Hawakal Young Poets Series 2022.’

To the Second Book

The bedsheets had different colours with different patterns of creases that spoke of random encounters with a lost and dull civilization. There were nights spent on a lonely continent, with a slowly growing love of the unknown and the foreign, And