RaveThe Times Literary Supplement (UK)In A God at the Door, Tishani Doshi etches incisive, luminous portraits of humanity into landscapes where the grim and the comforting are frequently interchangeable ... These poems delve into the conflicts between disaster and renewal and between past and present. They are tender enquiries rather than resolutions ... The natural world lends a canvas of spectacle to the collection, where even the eruption of a volcano is understood as a sign of birth. There are remarkable, if brief, moments of splendour in these poems. They swear allegiance to the marvels of the world without dwelling for too long on their meaning.
