Ruth Vanita makes a quiet impact with her lucid and understated style. Hers is primarily a poetry of relationships, of distances and absences. She experiments with form and meter, often juxtaposing age-old stories with contemporary events to create poems of extraordinary power and beauty.

"Vanita has a quiet, firm and self-assured voice that treats even the raucous with classical containment... It is a voice one would like to hear more often." - Keki N. Daruwalla