PRERANA KUMAR
WRITER. EDITOR. FACILITATOR
Prerana Kumar (they/them) is a writer based in London. They hold an MA in Creative Writing from UEA and were shortlisted for The White Review Poet’s Prize 2022 and are a winner of the Rebecca Swift Foundation’s Poet’s Prize 2022.
They are currently reading for a LAHP-funded doctorate in Creative Writing at QMUL.
IXORA out now with Guillemot Press
“Poetic conjurer and radical mythmaker, Prerana Kumar recalibrates kitchens and wombs into prophetic, dangerous, and weaponised spaces. This is a compelling intergenerational epic, expertly navigating a complicated cultural landscape with sonic dexterity.”
—Malika Booker
Ixora asks for your time, and some of your blood — and gives you an entire inheritance in return. You’ll conjure with these poems, for long hours. You’ll count them, notching their urgencies in your heart-abacus. The space they occupy is haunted, liminal, as earthy as blood-wet clay.
—Shivanee Ramlochan
“In these astonishing poems, the gift of tenderness lies in its warnings. Flame-lit paths guide daughters away from their dues, away from the inevitability of their inheritances towards dehiscence of other kinds and kindnesses. Ixora offers no clean reading and yolks us from the start, sticky and suffusing in its lessons about self-preservation and the impossibility of severance, luxuriant – here flowering, there lined with teeth.”
—Nisha Ramayya
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