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- ISBN 9781803097060
- Weight: 454g
- Dimensions: 159 x 235mm
- Publication Date: 06 Oct 2026
- Publisher: Seagull Books London Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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These lyric, unsparing poems stitch together a story of identity, belonging, and dissolution.
A Theory of Knots explores the loops of how identity and belonging are constructed, broken, resurrected, and dissolved. In sections, knots weave DNA and cords, memory and mythology, home and tongue; they draw on desire, Zoroastrian rituals, tradition and transgression, and the legacies of womanhood, asking what connects us, and at what cost.
As layers of identity are examined, Pervin Saket's poems return to language: heirloom, hazard, half-truth. Soon enough, language is both subject and suspect; having exposed the artificial nature of our truths, the poems confront the artificial nature of language itself. At the end, poetry reaches the wilderness of earth, collapses upon itself, dissolving on the page—untangling the final knot.
Pervin Saket is a Mumbai-based novelist, poet, editor, and literature curator. As poetry editor at The Bombay Literary Magazine since 2021, she curates literature for the Kala Ghoda Arts Festival. She is the author of Urmila and A Tinge of Turmeric.
