The multiple award-winning poetry collection ‘Mannequin Of Our Times’ by author-poet Vandana Kumar has appealed to audiences across the globe and resonated to the extent that there has been a Greek translation published in 2025.
Her collection of poetry while it comes from a personal space, it is not a self-obsessed ‘I me and mine space’. Mannequin Of Our Times is universal and makes the reader experience the alienation in these dystopian times. The poetry in the collection is not sugar coated but talks of all that we don’t want to face -death and the pain of loss, to the daily impact of alienation to lust and suppression of sexual desires.
This is not a book to be consumed in a hurry but in leisure. It belongs on the shelves of those who search for beauty not in the ornate but in the authentic rhythm of human experience. The work remains poetic always -never sermonizing or preachy and makes the everyday around us deeply literary.
