“My Home is Dissent” by Pooja Ugrani

My Home is Dissent is a luminous poetry collection by Pooja Ugrani that constructs verse as one might build a home—brick by tender brick, with the mortar of memory, desire, and defiance. This collection moves fluidly between the everyday and the elemental, where the domestic becomes a site of quiet resistance and reimagining.

Ugrani’s dissent hums through acts of nurture and refusal, through the courage to remain soft in a world that demands armour. Her poems measure the dimensions of love, labour, and loss through the delicate instruments of memory, architecture, and motherhood. Formally supple and sensorial, cerebral and sensuous, her work folds the architectural and the emotional into one continuum. This world of words writes of labour, love, and dissent as acts of design—as deliberate gestures that hold the self together.

Praised by acclaimed authors including Sampurna Chattarji, Maithreyi Karnoor, and poet Srividya Sivakumar, this collection participates physically in the making of poetry, not only through language but also through the palpability of the body’s experiences. Here is a poet testing her wings, where dissension may well be a heartbeat away from dissection.

My Home is Dissent, by Pooja Ugrani
Poetrywala (February 2026)