Acts of Love – Bhaskar Pitla

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Bhaskar Pitla’s love poems in this book are almost pastoral. They have leaves and flowers and flowing water which are not yet clichéd. I particularly liked the poem, ‘Snippets of You’, a very ardent poem that drifts away. — Jane Bhandari With phrases delicately lilting and seamlessly nuanced, Bhaskar captures moods of love in all its tones, ephemeral, eternal, erotic, platonic unrequited ideal and true like a quintessential poet of romance. — Rochelle Potkar To stay subtle about an intense emotion like love is tough. Bhaskar Pitla does justice to love, its absence and how it grows with terrains and spaces in this existence through his poetry. Acts of Love measures itself and then extends its reach to leave before us poems which convey intensity by keeping them sensitive and tender. A collection that’s going to hover over those who have the guts to love in times of hate. — Kabir Deb BHASKAR PITLA’s recent poetry has been published in the Yearbook of Indian Poetry in English: 2020-2021, The Shape of a Poem: The Red River Book of Contemporary Erotic Poetry, Cordite Poetry Review, Setu Bilingual Journal, and Narrow Road. Based in Mumbai, he works in technology consulting. With his other interests being songwriting and photography, he believes art and life overlaps to create an abstract painting. Insta @junejazzz.