"What if I never moved stars,

never kissed your skies?

I mirrored your moon

in my teacup tonight"

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Moon in My Teacup is a collection of fifty-one poems that set out to do just what the title and the tiny little quatrain that begins its preface, profess - to reflect the moon in the teacup, the macrocosm in the microcosm and the world in the mind. Speaking of love, longing, relationships, dilemmas and failures in startlingly fresh images, these poems make way for a memorable debut collection. "Vivid, lyrical, Basudhara's poems resonate with expressions of strong feeling finely controlled, balanced with wit and humour, and a quiet meditative quality," writes Mamang Dai in her Foreword to the book.