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UPCOMING RELEASE | POETRY
Some poetry collections arrive with grand ambition. Moments Unfolded arrives with something rarer — honesty.
The debut poetry collection by Fatema Shabbir, published by Ink and Ideas Publication House, is a quiet gathering of poems that move through the small moments most of us live through but rarely stop to name. Family kitchens and childhood mornings. Friendships that lasted and some that quietly ended. A mother’s hands. A father’s voice. A cup of tea made slowly on a tired morning. The ache of growing older. The strange grief of losing people who are still very much alive.
Nothing here is dressed up or distant. Nothing reaches for effect. This is poetry that reads like someone finally saying out loud what most people only feel in silence.
About the Collection
“It reads like someone finally saying out loud what most people only feel in silence.”
Moments Unfolded does not try to impress you. It simply asks you to slow down and feel something true.
Written with warmth and searching honesty, the collection explores what it means to notice life as you live it — to pay attention to the ordinary and find, inside it, something worth holding onto. Each poem holds a feeling that will feel familiar the moment you read it. Not because the experiences are universal in an abstract sense, but because Fatema Shabbir writes about the specific in a way that opens outward — the kind of specificity that makes a reader stop and think: I know that feeling. I have never been able to say it like that, but I know it.
There is a gentleness running through the collection that never tips into sentimentality. There is grief that does not dramatise itself. There is love — for family, for ordinary moments, for the shape of a life as it actually is — that is all the more moving for being understated.
Moments Unfolded is for anyone who has ever paused in an ordinary moment and felt it hold more than it should.
About the Author
Fatema Shabbir is a writer who pays attention. Her debut short story collection, Unwritten Corners, established her as a voice of quiet precision and emotional intelligence in Indian literary fiction. With Moments Unfolded, she moves into poetry — and the transition feels entirely natural. The same instinct that led her to find the story in the overlooked moment now finds the poem there instead.
This is a collection that will be returned to, again and again, in different seasons of life.
About Ink and Ideas Publication House
Moments Unfolded is the second title from Fatema Shabbir published by Ink and Ideas Publication House, and it reflects everything the house stands for — a commitment to writing that is genuine, carefully made, and given the space it deserves. As a publishing house built around its authors, Ink and Ideas continues to bring forward voices that matter, and work that lasts.
Moments Unfolded releases in August 2026. Some books you read. This one you feel.
Pre-order and early details available soon.
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