Hafsah Aneela Bashir's debut poetry collection is charged with a fierce compulsion to reveal and explore raw and open wounds from the domestic to political settings. With searingly and sharply observed detail, her poetry not only documents the tragic harm that war inflicts upon people but also explores relationships which are under strain closer to our domestic lives. A collection framed within a conceit of journeys, it crucially opens with `Gulshan-I-Iqbal Park' confronting the reader with the cold brutality of terrorism and the murder of children in their play-park. As the journey...