Songs of the Second Nightingale is a long-cherished dream finally taking wing. After years of writing short stories, Gulsum Basheer returns to her first love — poetry — with this collection of 54 poems drawn from memory, imagination, and lived experience.
Warm, personal, and quietly evocative, this is a collection that invites the reader to pause, reflect, and listen.
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Gulsum Basheer
Gulsum Basheer is a Chennai-based writer with a deep and abiding passion for storytelling. She holds a Master’s degree in English Literature and writes in both English and Tamil. She is the author of two English short story collections, Talk a Little and Talk a Little More, and a Tamil short story collection titled Mella Pesum Kadhaigal. Her writing often explores quiet emotions, unspoken conflicts, and the inner lives of ordinary people. She has been writing poetry since childhood, and this book is her first published collection of poems.
