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Hope and Despair – A Collection of Poems

Violence, a pandemic and climate change had led to continued human suffering in the recent decades. Turbulence all around the world has hit everyone on the planet, from those who were alive at the time of the trenches of WW1, to those born in ‘Coronavirus’ times. One young mind deeply disturbed by the current events resorted to writing poetry to express his feelings about the worsening current world situation. Sohan started writing about human suffering from the age of seven, after which poetry became his medium of expression of his feelings, his frustration at the past, his worries about the present, and his fears of the future. Enter a teenager’s mind full of random thoughts, printed in black and white, on topics ranging from past wars to current climate affairs, from things as deep as the mental suffering faced in lockdown to the simple beauty in a painting in this anthology Hope and Despair – A Collection of Poems.

Sohan Das

Sohan Das is an emerging author with a flair for the creative arts evident from a young age, taking up writing, alongside music, as his medium of expression. At the tender age of 7 his first piece of literary work, a letter from the perspective of a WW2 evacuee, was published in a school magazine. More recently, his poem Trenches won first prize in the writing section of the St Albans Legacy project celebrating the World War I centenary and he has had poems published in two different anthologies by Young Writers, UK. He published his first novella Armnesia at the age of 15. Sohan wrote this collection of poems between the age of 10 and 15 to express his hopes and despair about current world affairs.

Austin Macauley Publishers