Poetry is all about making new discoveries and expressing the unexpressed, noted Indian poet and writer Arundhathi Subramaniam has said here.
"The spine of a poem lies in silence, which probably is the only form of a language that is not confined within the punctuations," she said.
"Poetry to me was all about making new discoveries. It expresses the unexpressed and accommodates even in the uncertainties," the 40-year-old said. "Poetry is a dark art that leaks through the lives of the people."
Subramaniam was speaking at a literary event - the Eighth edition of Voices, an interaction programme organised by the Indian Embassy in association with the BP Koirala India Nepal Foundation in Kathmandu on Friday.
"As a young teenager when I used to hear adults speak, their language was complicated for me to understand but whenever I read any poetry, it had a language I could dance in," she said, revealing poetry's significance in her life.
Subramaniam has worked over the years as poetry editor, curator and journalist on literature, classical dance and theatre.
She has authored three books of poems and her prose works include the bestselling biography of a contemporary mystic Sadhguru: More Than a Life and a book on the Buddha.
Subramaniam is a recipient of the Raza Award for Poetry (2009).
First secretary Indian Embassy, Press, Information and Culture Abhay Kumar introduced her to the Nepalese audience during the programme organised at the Nepal Bharat Library in Kathmandu.
