About the Book
Book: World Full of Elixir
Author: Suhani Singh
Publisher: Notion Press
Price: Rs 180/-
A poetry collection by Suhani Singh, capturing emotions, resilience, and youthful creativity
Suhani Singh’s World Full of Elixir is an astonishing debut that defies the expectations often tethered to a 14-year-old poet. Hailing from Badaun, Uttar Pradesh, Suhani has crafted thirty poems that oscillate between raw vulnerability and precocious wisdom, marking her as a formidable and fresh voice in contemporary poetry from the continent.
This slender collection is less a mere anthology and more an audacious manifesto of youthful introspection that demands readers confront the paradox of adolescence, a fragility intertwined with unyielding resilience. The book opens with a manifesto-like epigraph, “Poetry is my style of moulding words that hold my feelings, emotions, thoughts, and everything I feel.” Here, Suhani exhibits her poetic intent, which is not merely to document emotions but to alchemise them. Suhani’s poetry explores self-discovery, society, and existence with striking maturity. In A Hope, she contrasts despair with resilience, depicting hope as a lone matchstick piercing the darkness. Suhani's roots in Badaun’s hinterland permeate her work, grounding ephemeral themes in tangible landscapes.
The book also includes heartfelt tributes to her mentors, such as Oh My Dearest Teacher!, where she expresses gratitude for the guidance and inspiration she has received. These poems add a layer of warmth and sincerity to the collection and showcase Suhani’s appreciation for the people who have shaped her journey of life. Her imagery like ‘rustic fields,’ ‘bustling cities,’ and ‘quiet moments of solitude’ serves as both backdrop and character.
The strength of the poetic volume lies in its unpolished sincerity, which also reveals its almost negligible limitations. While Suhani's voice is refreshingly unfiltered, some poems lean on predictable motifs (tears, stars, dreams), occasionally veering into sentimentalism.
World Full of Elixir heralds a child prodigy whose journey has just begun. Suhani Singh is not merely a ‘promising’ voice; she is a ‘confirmation’ of a ‘creative torrent’.
— The author heads the Department of English at Swami Shukdevanand College
