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A Quiet Place Inside Me
Hardcover
Poetry AnthologiesGeneral Poetry
Publisher Price: $26.99
ISBN13: 9781808574764
Publisher: Sandeep Singh Madan
Published: Sep 28 2026
Pages: 112
Weight: 0.83
Height: 0.44 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
A Quiet Place Inside Me is a deeply personal collection of forty-one interconnected poems tracing the fragile journey from love and longing through heartbreak, loneliness, faith, acceptance, and renewal. With intimate imagery and emotional candour, Sandeep Singh Madan gives language to the quiet battles that often remain hidden behind an ordinary smile.
The collection begins in the warmth of affection: shy glances, childhood wishes, unspoken confessions, and the hope that love might finally choose us. But warmth gives way to loss. Relationships change, distance grows, letters go unanswered, and the heart must learn how to carry people it can no longer hold.
As the journey deepens, heartbreak becomes something larger than romantic loss. The poems turn toward childhood wounds, family, displacement, loneliness, unanswered prayers, and the search for belonging. Faith becomes both refuge and question. God is sought, challenged, left behind, and encountered again as the speaker wrestles with suffering and the meaning hidden inside it.
Yet this is not a collection that ends in despair.
Through images of rain, flowers, oceans, moonlight, trams, empty rooms, distant stations, and sleepless nights, the poems gradually move toward acceptance. The wounded heart does not simply forget what happened to it; it discovers another way to carry its scars. Survival becomes its own quiet form of courage, and hope begins to return without pretending that the past never hurt.
Accompanied by original aquarelle illustrations by Daniel Korcsmar, A Quiet Place Inside Me creates an intimate meeting place between poetry and visual art, allowing moments of memory, faith, sorrow, and hope to unfold in both words and images.
For anyone who has loved without certainty, grieved in silence, questioned their faith, felt unseen, or had to rebuild themselves after loss, this collection offers something simple but enduring: recognition.
Somewhere between breaking and beginning again, we may all discover a quiet place inside ourselves.
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