Firefly Memories

“Firefly Memories is about poetry with a camera lens wandering past ‘flurries of black ice’ and ‘snow calibrating on a window sill like a chemistry experiment’ . . . The unquestioned quality of her poetry is interspersed with snapshots of people she encounters. The hurt about being told to go back to her country stays like an undercurrent to the collection.”
Keki N. Daruwalla

“These are poems which chart the way we can feel—in Seamus Heaney’s words—‘lost, unhappy and at home’ all at once in the world. Dislocation, integration and the strangeness of family life are brought to the fore, often with dark humour.”
Helen Mort

“This collection offers a kaleidoscopic view of images and metaphors, giving the reader a dazzling, unforgettable glimpse into the poet’s memories reborn as perfect artefacts.”
Dr A. J. Thomas

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Jonaki Ray was educated in India (Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur) and the USA (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign). A scientist by education and training, she is now a poet, writer, and editor in New Delhi, India. Her work has been published in Poetry, Poetry Wales, The Rumpus, Indian Literature, and elsewhere.