Book Review: A Week With Enya

It is rightly said that those who go through things are the only ones who can explain them the best. Such an effort has been done by Amar B. Singh in his heart touching poetry collection, “A Week With Enya”. The collection is a powerful portrayal of the emotions felt by a father towards his daughter and he has given words to his emotions with clarity and vividness. In the preface. he shares how the poems came into existence and what led to his writing them.

Each poem in itself is a masterpiece. He has is share of playing with the imagination of the readers through the titles he gives. Some titles like “Fitting her in my society”, “What you seek to change, changes you” and “Joy in the work or, in me” are powerful in themselves to grab the attention of the reader and hold on to it.

The vocabulary used by the poet is fine for the readers to understand. All his poems have the fatherly emotion running in the background and that kind of remains in th air throughout the collection. Poetry is about giving words to human emotions and writing them in a few words. “A Week with Enya” is a fine example of that.