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- About the Authors
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D/O is a book about growing up in motion—leaving home, missing people, falling apart, and starting again. But also knowing that you never fully forget where you came from, or the people you belong to.
This debut collection by Yashmita D/O Ananthan explores all that we are daughters of: playlists, hometown glories, 2020s kismet, and the histories we carry in our bodies. Through poems that move, shift and loop, D/O traces love, memory, and girlhood as unfinished states, alongside the work of making new homes and figuring shit out. Come relish a voice that is at once diaristic and admonishing, incandescent and clear.
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“Rooted in mythology, Tamil culture and the natural world, Yashmita’s intimate poems trace the complexities of daughterhood and queer heartache. Her writing offers a salve for those who dream of leaving yet long, always, to return home.”
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Yashmita D/O Ananthan (b. 2003) is a poet and undergraduate student in English and Creative Writing, and Sociology at Murdoch University. She grew up in Singapore and now lives in Perth. Yashmita’s poems dwell in family, friendship, intimacy, memory, and the body, shaped by a past both unruly and irradiant, and irrevocably altered by the solitary act of leaving home to inhabit the unfamiliar. D/O is her debut in print.
Cover Type: Paperback
Page Count: 130
Year Published: 2026
Size: 190mm x 128mm (P)
Language: English