No Man's Land

Tupa Snyder's early life and education was in India. She grew up a child of the remnants of the Raj - the British Empire in India - in the isolated compound of a power plant in Calcutta thirty years after India's independence. The material of her poetry comes from a strong leaning toward European Romantic Poetry and Philosophy and an interest in delineating a fragmented lyric self through metonymy and inversion. Tupa has a lifelong interest in metaphorical writing and thinks of poetry as a dwelling space. Her love of poetry has lead to two career changes from mathematics to English literature during her BA (University of Poona) and to creative writing as a second MA (Illinois State University) and a PhD at the University of Exeter.Tupa Snyder's work demonstrates the arrival of a confident new voice that straddles cultural divides and geographic locations - with sections of the book devoted to each of the countries that she has called home over the past years.