Former journalist Annalisa Bahadur has published her first volume of poetry A Flower’s Envy.
According to a press release, Bahadur, a Guyanese who now lives in the US, “illuminates a new voice on the landscape of international poetry. Bahadur’s poems capture the full gamut of women’s experiences as lovers, mothers, daughters, friends, and workers.”
The release said Bahadur’s unique experiences growing up as a young woman in Guyana as well as her years spent in India give A Flower’s Envy a global perspective.
In A Flower’s Envy, poetry aficionados will discover an easy-to-read, thought-provoking, and lyrical look at the lives of women, and in truth, the beauty and hope inherent in the universal human condition, the release said.
Bahadur, 34, was born in Berbice and she credited her late mother with nurturing her love of writing. Her high school English teacher Ms Sylvie also never gave up on her through her teenage tantrums.
Bahadur said she fell in love with writing at age 12 and her high school, Tagore Memorial Secondary, published her first short story in its journal.
Bahadur worked as a news anchor and reporter for nine years, and also served at the editor of an Indian magazine in India. She left India for the United States where she currently lives with her son. With the release of her first volume of poetry, A Flower’s Envy, Bahadur hopes to touch readers’ hearts while finding commonalities in women’s experiences worldwide, the release said.
