Simrita Dhir lectures at the University of California, San Diego, and is the author of acclaimed novels ‘The Rainbow Acres’ and ‘The Song of Distant Bulbuls’.
In her vivid and intense poems, novelist and poet Simrita Dhir celebrates the avocado, fuchsias and ‘the season of pink’, exploring them as symbols and metaphors for beauty and fragility, love and light. By interweaving the personal and mythical, each poem is unique yet universal in its message and appeal.
Poet Simrita Dhir eulogises the colour 'Yellow' in her newest poems, where yellow trumpet flowers bear testament to the rise and fall of empires, and yellow birds rustle her immigrant mind to crave eternal bonds.
Simrita Dhir’s poems bear witness to the myriad implications of North American Colonialism and celebrate the Native American spirit; primordial rivers; primeval foliage and human resilience
Simrita Dhir writes two Thank You poems and a poem about Summer, celebrating family and friendship, seasons, melodies and colours
Simrita Dhir explores optimism and resilience in three reflective poems. In her poetic landscape, memory and song; motif and colour; vulnerability and quirkiness, diversity and stories converge to reinstate hope and affirm possibilities
California-based academic and novelist Simrita Dhir writes three poems for Outlook.
Poet Simrita Dhir dives into childhood and teenage, compiling sights, smells, tastes, sounds and fantasies into four confine-breaking poems, free of structure and highly perceptive.
Nature and gardening serve as the poet’s muses as she contemplates life, each poem unraveling new facets of consciousness.
These poems address the idea of friendship, reminding us of how we are stronger from knowing that someone else believes in us and is glad we exist
These poems commemorate fatherhood by recalling childhood stories, bonds made over books and rivers, the onset of illness and the eventual loss of the father.
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