Photo credits: Barbara A Lane (pixabay), 9699186 (pixabay), ready made (pexels) Edited by Vaishali Title: Urban Disorders Author: Natasha Deonarain Expected Publication Date: 23rd September 2022 Publisher: Finishing Line Press Genre/Themes: Poetry, family relationships, loss, love, grief, post-pandemic Published in various journals of poetry, some of which have won the hat tip of top nomination for her urban-visualised observational art, Natasha Deonarain continues on a poetic trip that reflects the citified imagery of our familiar environments even as she brazenly noses the fore of our dystopic lives. Meditating upon the traffic of inner life, felt through the feeling mind, thought through the vein of empirical examination, Natasha looks to the place where many of us drift abandoned in place of giving up the ghost to a contemporary existence. Placing us as people who, through every changeable clime and through every shifting locus, are left to find purchase to the right of a meaningful existence. To find a way of finding ourselves through the din of immediacy and twenty-first century peculiarity; that ancient urge to cast around for a home that feels like home hasn't lost its urgency. And perhaps most especially in the modern day, we're most troubled by the lack in favour of a generously indulgent consumption that strays from connect and community. With immediately dawning poetry that forces a front to the association of veridical connections of a wider companionship with life, this boon of a deeper life becomes resistible to the show-stopping urban drama. A meaningful life often comes with the abstraction of never quite knowing where the meaning lies. It's a thought centre long intervened, and its contemplation is universally best chewed up, weighed up and artfully coughed up by the many people who have once felt the same. Who have once written the disorder ready to buy, ready to sit with and learn the learnings that search closer and closer to a place untouched that wants to be touched. And through a world-wide pandemic that tested so much more than the somatic resilience of a global nation, we again found ourselves rattled by the conditions of a different sort of post-pandemic society. With a publication date set to September 23rd of this year, published by Finishing Line Press, Urban Disorders will be a must read poetry release. All readers will interrelate through a thirty two-page collectional visit that fosters a relationship between conflict, love, loss and for the search for wholeness to be found by looking through more than just one window . I'm more than delighted that I get to share an author interview with Natasha to pre-empt her release in advance where she so very insightfully and engagingly establishes her poetry process, its personal resonance and its place in her life. She digs into the mind/body/feelings interrelations where the experience of meaning should take us. Where addiction, abuses, griefs, victimisations, indulgences and overconsumption have become the modern time movements we guzzle, swill and repeat with the same backwash, key to the author's message, if we are to take a seat at the dining hall of life, then consume we must from a plate that nourishes. And that we may only be dehumanising our place on the earth by not being a part of it. Shelve the date and enjoy the interview! Interview Vaishali (V.L. Book Reviews): Hello Natasha, it's great to be speaking with you! Tell us a bit about your poetry collection ‘Urban Disorders’...
Vaishali: What pushed you to write and release Urban Disorders?
Vaishali: If you could select one of your poems - a personal favourite of yours - penned in this selection, which would it be and why?
Vaishali: What is it that you want to meditate over when you sit down to write and what inner place do you reach into and pull from to say what you need to say and feel what you need to feel?
Vaishali: What's your experience like with writing poetry; does it excite you, humble you, delight you, frustrate you, push at the parts of you that aren't as easy to express within the day to day?
Vaishali: What do you think should be best appreciated about poetry as an art?
Vaishali: Have you always written poetry, and if not, what opened you up to choose to?
Vaishali: Are your feelings the same for every poem you write?
Vaishali: Life's a busy playground! How do you fit your poetry practice into the monopoly of life's responsibilities?
Vaishali: Do you have any plans to write full-length, prose-based titles, and whether poetry or prose, what's sitting in your mind waiting to be written?
Vaishali: Tell us about some of your own favourite reading adventures?
Vaishali: Does the Pajama poet do her best work in her pajamas ?
Vaishali: Poems have their own story-told silhouette. Sometimes readers often feel a resistance to being more poetry-positive because its literature can/might be too abstract. How do you feel poetry is and should be accessible?
Vaishali: The title of your book is incredibly resonant to the modern lifestyle. What do you hope readers will take away from any one of your poems or from this collection as a whole?
Vaishali: If you were a poem, what would you be called (how would you entitle yourself)?
Vaishali: Leave us with any 'for the moment' words!
A POETRY COLLECTION U R B A N D I S O R D E R S - N A T A S H A D E O N A R A I N THE BACK OF THE BOOK
A big thank you to Natasha for getting in touch and participating in this interview! W H E R E Y O U C A N F I N D N A T A S H A A N D H E R W O R K ● Publisher Website: Finishing Line Press.com ● Facebook: @ThePajamaPoet ● Instagram: @realpajamapoet ● Twitter: @pajamapoet I love interacting with fellow readers, reviewers, bloggers and writers. Hearing about reader opinion is the fuel to my reader appetite, so get in touch and comment below! H A P P Y R E A D I N G SHARE ON FACEBOOK: L e a v e a c o m m e n t a n d l e t' s t a l k...
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