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Four Humid

Months

Gurpreet Bharya

KEY SELLING POINTS

Poetry with a raw and unfiltered focus on the experience of marriage, separation and divorce.
Traces a story from sadness and isolation, through to anger and then, finally, empowerment.
Also explores themes of South Asian society and culture.

There were always fires in my marriage. Fires that were never quite put out and wetted down by tears, before
starting up once again with even more ferocity and vengeance. The atmosphere in the house was
uncomfortably humid as a result of this exhausting fire-water cycle. Towards the end, the humidity became
intolerable. There are only so many fires you can start before there’s nothing left to burn. And that’s what
happened. There was no big bang ending – just nothing left.

Four Humid Months is a deeply personal reflection of my marriage and the four months we spent living
together as a married couple.
This book is many things – a time capsule and bridge, as well as the voice of the girl who endured it all. Most
importantly perhaps, it’s a story - a story about how my marriage held me, how I held it and how it shaped my
life so that now 'I look forward to ‘diving in heart first / and coming back up enough’ (Gratefulness – part III).
While each poem may be read, understood and hopefully enjoyed, they also work together, in order, to trace a
story of love, growth and loss told in eighteen individual parts.

Gurpreet Bharya is a copywriter and poet. Her writing often references the natural world and experiments with
the role of form and punctuation. Four Humid Months is her debut poetry collection. Her work has previously
been featured in online poetry magazine, Ink, Sweat & Tears and Visual Verse.

Publication Date: 28th April 2024 £9.99 ISBN: 9781805143703
Thema subject category: DCF – Poetry by individual poets
paperback 216 x 138 mm 48 pp Portrait

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