FOR EVERYTHING LEFT UNSPOKEN

For Everything Left Unspoken cherishes the silence of becoming: the selves we inherit, the selves we perform, and the selves that keep asking to be born. Uma Shukla writes from the subtle border between memory and myth, body and belief, intimacy and distance.

These poems move through longing, cultural inheritance, silence, contradiction, and the strange sacredness of ordinary life. They do not try to resolve pain neatly. Instead, they sit with what remains unsaid, with the ache of belonging to more than one world at once, and with the private histories that shape a person before she fully understands them.

This debut collection is for anyone who has carried love within, questioned identity deeply, and found deeper connection in the spaces where language almost fails.

Uma Shukla is a seventeen-year-old poet and writer from Mumbai. A Kathak dancer for thirteen years, she brings rhythm, silence and movement to her writing. Her interests in philosophy, psychology, mythology and life sciences shape her work. She has already written over five hundred poems and three works of fiction.