Redapples falling still by Sneha Subramanian Kanta coming soon for purchase!

Synopsis

In Redapples falling still, Sneha Subramanian Kanta weaves the lyric in inventive form and as archival history as a multilingual creator. When Tamil and English intersect, they create a ritual of vocabulary which extends into memory as an ode. In these poems, Kanta illuminates that which creates a family, from synecdoches of food, prayer, and song. This collection is a praise for fathers and the instrumental role they play in a family.

Praise for Redapples falling still

Reading Sneha Kanta’s Redapples Falling Still is both as soundless and cacophonous as the night and a crashing roof.  Sound and color both unsettle and delight.  This is a collection of lineage and memory, and Kanta is our cartographer, deftly elegizing the lost—both family and green field.  This is a collection that plays with language as a way to understand the past and reckon with the present.  Kanta’s collection also bursts with hope, tells us we “belong to every village” and that “memory / is like தயிர் சாதம் for how it stays in the body, / after the smallest part of our remembrance becomes / a holy remnant.” Redapples Falling Still is that holy remnant.  You’ll want to hold it close.

—Allison Blevins, author of Where Will We Live If the House Falls Down?

Born in Mumbai, Sneha Subramanian Kanta is an award-winning writer, academician, and editor living in the Greater Toronto Area. A 2026 InSitu Artist in Residence at Creative Hub 1352 and a 2025 Woodhaven Artist in Residence at UBC Okanagan, she is the author of six chapbooks. Her work has been recognized and supported by Canada Council for the Arts, Ontario Arts Council, the Charles Wallace Trust, the Vijay Nambisan Foundation, and British Council. She is one of the founding editors at Parentheses Journal.