Apostrope- Poetry reading by Barnali Ray Shukla

Join us for a reading by Barnali Ray Shukla.

About the book:
The binaries of personal and public must be subverted when seemingly personal concerns voiced through personal expressions transcend to achieve a universality of sorts. In her debut poetry book, Apostrophe, Barnali Ray Shukla’s versification of seemingly personal experiences and individual truths forthcoming from a feminine experience form a body of work which, when viewed from the lens of feminism, can be seen as forming the voice of a much larger truth. The existence of a woman in a patriarchal society is, by default, a political one, and in this book too, one can see the lines between the personal and the political blurring.

Barnali Ray Shukla:

Barnali Ray Shukla is an Indian writer, filmmaker and a poet. Her creative writing has featured in journals and anthologies, including: Indian Ruminations, Sunflower Collective, OutOfPrint, Kitaab.org, OUTCAST, madrasmag.in, Vayavya, Anthology of Contemporary Indian Poetry II, indianculturalforum.in, UCityReview (USA) and A Portrait in Blues (UK).
She was the India-winner of the R L Poetry Award 2016 that resulted in her debut poetry volume, Apostrophe (2018). Her debut feature-film as a writer-director, Kucch Luv Jaisaa, released in May 2011, is now streaming on Amazon. Her documentary film, Liquid Borders (2015), has been screened at film festivals across India, North America and Europe.
She is currently editing her next documentary film.
When she is not doing any of the above she is found trekking in the Himalayas.