Retd teacher launches first poetry book

A retired teacher and now Pratibha Panghal, launched her first collection of poems, titled ‘Listen To The Thorn Birds.’

An English teacher in a local private school, she retired to pursue her other passion of writing poetry and travelling. “The journey from teaching children nuances of poetry to realising my own dream and getting my first book published has been both vibrantly interesting as well as hard,” says Panghal.

Published by Delhi- and London-based Blue Rose One, it is peppered with sixty verses, which touch an array of human emotions. While most were freshly written, a few stem out of Pratibha’s diary maintained regularly.

“There is no specific time conducive to writing. I get ideas, which spontaneously get formed into words anytime and anywhere,” she says. “It can be during a simple walk somewhere in the city, while dining at a restaurant or while looking out of the window. All writers would connect with this,” she continues.