Nabilah Haniph
Writeremail: nabilah.haniph@gmail.com website: shineinlowland.com facebook & instagram: Nabilah Haniph
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ISBN: 978-93-5517-103-0
Author: Nabilah Haniph
Language: english
Format: Paperback
Nabilah’s ‘SHINE IN LOWLAND’ is a brilliantly crafted collection of poems that transcends the barriers of nation states and appeals to the poetry loving people around the world. The beautifully conceived collection directly converses with the changing sensibility of the readers of different generations. Her poems stand apart with their nobility of thoughts, originality of images, beauty of stylistic narration, depth of insights and the vastness of farsightedness. The collection makes a good read and takes the readers to a higher realm of sensibility, and unscaled heights of experiences. The poet has her own unique ways of expressing what she sees behind common sights and what she conceives beyond the ordinary level of conception. She dwells on a wide range of topics and comes out in flying colours, churning the complexities of human predicament. She makes use of a poetical language which filters and heightens the current language and beautifies it with the sporadic sprinkling of the subtle nuances of verses and striking images. It seems she is convinced about the therapeutic value of poesy and she successfully employs a plethora of innovative images that pacify the bruised souls to a great extent. The serene mind of the poet gets truly reflected in what she scribbles down! Her concern about humaneness, which is being done away with at a faster pace deserves special mention. She seeks to measure the distance between a homosapien and a human being and the distance gets marked in her poems in its totality. _FOREWORD BY PRABHA VARMA
email: nabilah.haniph@gmail.com website: shineinlowland.com facebook & instagram: Nabilah Haniph
Shine in Lowland is my first anthology of poems. This collection consists of my pickled thoughts arranged in strands and most of it was written during my early years of puberty. The verses are diverse in its content and topics range from contemplation and sorrow to love for nature, nation and infatuation. The damsel in me had a confused upbringing which reflects in my versification too, most of it looms around sorrow, solitude and confusion. The second part of this anthology will definitely consist of more love poems which will have shades of longing and desertion. Shine in Lowland is a tomb dedicated to my lost love that had to die young due to unwanted space given to undeserving persons and opinions. The world has always been unjust to lovers and poets, me being both, had to suffer the brunt twice. Having been a vagabond gypsy all throughout and leading an unsettled life, it took more than a decade for me to publish my first anthology. Yet, the poet in me is unrest and I wield my pen whenever I am in despair. The love for words is platonic and the spatial years have been witnessing my verses root, enroute and uproot the various incarnations of me and finally making me believe in myself and let the world see my creations. My poems are the result of the books I was encouraged to read in my childhood and early adulthood by my late grandfather, Vaidyanveetil Noordinkunju Rawther. On this day, when my words get printed in black and white, I fondly remember him and feel blessed to have borne his genes for literature. I had lots of inhibitions in showing daylight to the diary which contained my poems. And today, thanks to a handful of good friends, I got it done. Thank you, Lal Deni for encouraging me to get this in book form. My love and gratitude to my family, especially my husband, Jaison Augustine, who believes in me more than I do and my greatest fan, my daughter, Iffah Maryam. _Nabilah Haniph