Poetry at Sangam
Poetry at Sangam showcases poetry in English and translations as well as essays on poetics and news of new releases.
Scherezade Sanchita Siobhan is a psychologist, writer and a community catalyst based in Mumbai India. She is an award-winning author and poet whose work is published or forthcoming in The London Magazine, Huffpost, Quint, Berfrois, Feministing, Jubilat, Vice, Pinwheel, Winter Tangerine, Cordite among others. She is the author of Bone Tongue (Thought Catalog Books, 2015), Father, Husband (Salopress, 2016) and The Bluest Kali (Lithic Press, 2018). Her first full length non-fiction book That Beautiful Elsewhere will be published by HarperCollins in 2023. She founded and runs The Talking Compass— a therapeutic space dedicated to providing mental counselling services and decolonizing mental health care in South Asia. She can be found at @zaharaesque on Twitter and Instagram.
Satire traces its etymology from Latin “satira” – a full dish. It is intriguing to me that satire as a literary form is designed to hold up a full dish and ask questions about its fullness. Satire for me is the closest manifestation of Brecht’s proclamation that art is a not a mirror held to society but a hammer to shape it. Growing up displaced, underprivileged and largely swung between two acerbic parents from two entirely different cultures, humour became my safest coping mechanism. Heartbreak, illness, homelessness – most of it was countered, reimagined and then navigated through satire. These poems are pebbles flung into a river. They shape concentric circles and make some domino-esque ripples within the water. Whether it is my complete failure at sexting in my mid-thirties or my obsessive love of chonky rodents, each poem unpeels a layer of our collective vulnerability, shame and doubt without being saccharine since I am diabetic.
Sexts in the Age of Intuitive Typing
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