Pallavi Singh

Pallavi Padma-Uday, is a writer and business historian based in the UK. Her debut poetry collection ''Orisons in the Dark'' was published by Writers Workshop in April 2023. Quoting from her debut book, a leading SAGE journal noted that Padma-Uday 'remains acutely conscious of the presence of patriarchy and women’s position in it — “I have changed countries, continents apart…the fries and salmons and prawns, all affirm/ how some things may never change,/ like men and their love for food,/ the eagerness of women cooking for them.”' Irish poet and novelist Csilla Toldy, writing about her poetry, wrote that Padma-Uday "transforms life experience into poetry comparably to the great American woman poet, Elizabeth Bishop, with the same unflinching view on life." In 2022, she was featured as one of the artists in 'Breaking Ground Ireland', a landmark project of the Cúirt International Festival of Literature and National University of Ireland Galway. ''Punch Magazine'' featured her as one of the 40 poets from India in its annual poetry issue in 2022 and 2023. She was one of the seven awardees for the prestigious Cill Rialaig Residency for the year 2023. In November 2023, she was invited to be one of the speakers at Rostrevor Literary festival, where she launched her debut collection 'Orisons in the dark'. In May 2024, her second poetry collection 'Lola in Belfast' was published. The book was launched at Belfast Book Festival 2024 with eminent Irish author Catherine Dunne (writer). A review of 'Lola in Belfast' by leading news website Scroll noted: 'The poems are often sad, but always poignant. The registers in this collection are so varied that you read it like a novel, not able to put it down. Padma-Uday’s poetic magnetism is not rooted in the selection of metaphors or imagery, but in the voice that takes you in, embraces you and offers a hand,' Provided by Wikipedia