Tinat Atifa Masood's new book of poems covers a vast area-the unique bond between mother and child, philosophical musings on life and existence, war, social discrepancies and all shades of love- filial, romantic, humanistic and divine. The book is multi-faceted as the author herself, straddling many fields and triumphing in all of them. It is a joy to read her poems and feel in them the basic essence of poetry i.e. a love for words and the felicity to weave them into a beautiful idiom. Masood's love poems are a beautiful mix of nostalgia and loss and others like the delightful 'Nightmare' use satire and humour to great effect. Every poem takes its own time to find its audience but this set will find its audience pretty soon.