Saraswati Nagpal
Official website of Forward-Prize nominated poet, Saraswati Nagpal.
Latest Works
Poetry Collection: Drench Me in Silver
Explore enchanting and profound themes in Saraswati Nagpal's debut poetry collection, 'Drench Me in Silver' with Black Bough Poetry, Wales, UK. Saraswati entwines the sensuous and the mystical in poems crafted across landscapes and time.
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A luminous meditation on the sacred feminine and ancestral memory... most remarkably, this is poetry of transformative power—the promise of grace, awe, and healing.
Oormila V. Prahlad, author of Patchwork Fugue
This collection draws its most assured, moving portraits when treading the contours of ancestry, the tragedies of homelands lost and the chai-laden joy in new homelands.
Siddharth Dasgupta, author of All These Streets We've Known By Heart
Critical Acclaim
A dance which leaves the reader breathless at the scope and achievement of this truly magnificent work.
Julian Cason, Forward Prize & Pushcart-nominated poet
Gentle and intricately examined, these poems are gifted as a sensation on skin, cinematic and embodied. A feminine / goddess thread of ancient grace and wisdom flows through these landscapes and intimate portraits of place and love, their lyrical phrasing a balm for a hectic world.
Marcelle Newbold, Poet and Editor
Saraswati Nagpal’s poems shimmer with ancestral echoes, feminine strength, and sensory beauty, offering to readers a tender homage to mothers, lands lost and found, and the stories that shape us.
Kavitha Chinnaiyan, award-winning author of Shakti Rising
There is elegance and grace in Saraswati’s poetry and an expanse of imagination that can only be termed as deeply appealing. Her work displays an embracing, silken love for language.
Vinita Agrawal, author of Eartha
Upcoming Events
Join Saraswati Nagpal at upcoming events to delve into the enchanting world of poetry and literature.
International Book Launch (Online) for Drench Me in Silver:
About Saraswati Nagpal
Saraswati is an Indian poet, author, educator, and classical dancer. She is Co-Editor at The Winged Moon Literary Magazine on substack. Her work is widely published internationally: The Atlantic, Atlanta Review, SAND Journal, Dust Poetry, Acropolis Journal, The Hooghly Review, and others, besides, anothologies such as 'Thin Places, Sacred Spaces', Yearbook of Indian Poetry 2023, Black Bough's Christmas and Winter editions, In Fight, and others.