POETRY: The Seamstress and the Global Garment

(Reviewed by Rosie Blackwell-Sutton)

by Maya Chowdhry

Rising-star and recent winner of Commonword’s ’30 Poems’ competition Maya Chowdhry takes us on a sensuous, authentic journey from the tenements of Edinburgh to the spices of India in her first poetry collection, which is “mature and confident, with a clear sense of voice” said Nii Parkes, Founder Flippedeye Publishing. She exquisitely and humorously explores issues of race, sexuality and war through a powerful use of words in poems such as ‘Is gay a country?’, ‘Been-sprouts’ and ‘Identity song’. Saradha Soobrayen, Poetry Editor, Chroma Journal said of her works “Chowdhry’s poems are uniquely alive to the possibilities of multiple identities, fused mother tongues and the interweaving of myths.”

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