“A Second Life in Eighty-Eight Keys” – Oormila V. Prahlad (eBook PDF Edition)

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The poems in this collection are based on a significant journey in the poet’s childhood- that of learning music in the 1980s. Culminating in the backdrop of the 1990 Gulf War and seen through the lens of her passion for playing the piano, the poems outline displacement, loss, and the possibility of miracles even in the midst of conflict and hopelessness.

For Signed copies contact Oormila via her web site at poetry.oormila.com

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Oormila Vijayakrishnan Prahlad is an Indian-Australian artist, poet, and improv pianist who was raised in the Middle East.

She holds a Masters in English. She has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and multiple times for the Best of the Net.

She was long listed for the Dai Fry Memorial Award for Mystical Poetry in Wales, UK, in 2022. She won the 66th Moon Prize awarded by Writing in a Woman’s Voice Journal, and was a finalist in the Glass House Poetry Awards 2020. She is the author of three digital micro-chapbooks published by Origami Poems Project, US, and her debut collection, Patchwork Fugue, was published by Atomic Bohemian Press, UK, in February 2024.

She lives and works in New South Wales, on the traditional lands of The Eora Nation.

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