Wince

<p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>With the lexical bravura and formal agility that have become hallmarks of Umit Singh Dhuga's poetry the poems in </span><em style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Wince</em><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> excavate a lyrical self animated by familial political and racial upheaval. The ensuing risks of vulnerability and exposure are elegantly shaped primarily in sonnets haiku and terza rima that range over racism in sports varieties of disunion wrought by Brexit and postcolonial detritus and detente in South Asia. </span><em style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Wince </em><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>marks a coming of age: in meditations on loss as well as the poet's marriage the poems illuminate a world remade.</span></p>