Romen Basu' s verse cannot be rushed into the reader's heart. So, since he only persuades and hints at life truths, with a gracious indirection, nothing frontal. Those who are familiar with his earlier volumes of poems would readily agree with this. Certainly some of these readers would have derived much pleasure and profit from those. Like the finesse that is palpable in the prose and substance of his novels, his poems too gleam with an expressive beauty.