Catching Rainbows at Night

***Top 5 on The Straits Times' Weekly Bestsellers List (21/09/2024)***

In Catching Rainbows at Night, Subhransu Behera intertwines Indian folklore, myth, and modern life - weaving reflective stories of love, loss, and the search for meaning through vivid imagination and layered metaphor. With subtle nods to technology, these insightful poems explore the contrasts and parallels between the mundane and the magical, inviting readers to glimpse how these worlds merge, collide, and shape our understanding of the everyday.

Subhransu Behara is a software developer and a trilingual poet writing in English, Odia and Hindi. Born in Odisha, India, he moved to Singapore in 2010. A true polymath, he has produced an Indian pop album, founded a tech startup, organised an international programming conference and co-edited a creative writing anthology. He completed his Master of Arts in Creative Writing at LASALLE College of the Arts in 2022 and has been a featured poet at the Singapore Writers Festival. Catching Rainbows at Night is his first collection of poetry.

This collection of poetry is edited by Dr Dominic Symes. Dr Symes lives quietly in Naarm/Melbourne. He writes poems, which over the last few years have been published in Australian journals and anthologies like Overland, Cordite, Best of Australian Poetry. Recent poems were shortlisted for the 2023 David Harold Tribe Award and won the 2023 Woollahra Digital Literary Award for Poetry. His debut collection 'I saw the best memes of my generation' (Recent Work Press) was highly commended in the 2024 NSW Premier's Literary Awards Kenneth Slessor Prize.