Winner of the Seamus Heaney First Collection Poetry Prize 2021.
Longlisted for the Michael Murphy Memorial Poetry Prize 2021. Arrow
is a debut volume extraordinary in ambition, range and achievement.
At its centre is 'Dear, beloved', a more-than-elegy for her younger
sister who died suddenly: in the two years she took to write the
poem, much else came into play: 'it was my hope to write the mood
of elegy rather than an elegy proper,' following the example of the
great elegists including Milton, to whose Paradise Lost she
listened during the period of composition, also hearing the strains
of Brigit Pegeen Kelly's Song, of Alice Oswald and Marie Howe. The
poem becomes a kind of kingdom, 'one that is at once evil, or
blighted, and beautiful, not to mention everything in between'. As
well as elegy, Chakraborty composes invocations, verse essays, and
the strange extended miracle of the title poem, in which ancient
and modern history, memory and the lived moment, are held in a
directed balance. It celebrates the natural forces of the world and
the rapt experience of balance, form and - love. She declares a
marked admiration for poems that 'will write into being a world
that already in some way exists'. This is what her poems achieve.
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