Book Cover: Love's Cradle by Sushant Thapa
Editions:Paperback: $ 10.99
ISBN: 978-2487017009
Size: 9.00 x 6.00 in
Pages: 126

Love’s Cradle is a 2023 poetry collection by Nepalese poet Sushant Thapa, exploring universal themes of love, forgiveness, purpose, and masculinity through intimate, imagery-rich verses. Thapa’s work blends earthiness with philosophical depth, juxtaposing love and time in ways that invite both emotional and reflective engagement.

The collection has been described as “an embroidery of love and time” and “a poet living for art, also being in love”  It moves between soft, seductive whispers and wild, hungry desires, often using natural metaphors to convey emotional states.

Excerpt:

One Piece

Give me one piece of you
Like a fallen heaven.
I will make
A complete whole
Out of it.
Always I feel that
One moment of yours
Enough in my heart.
I am adamant I will
Take that one piece
Although you are not here
And there is no attainable whole of you.

Reviews:t. kilgore splake wrote:

“sushant thapa’s new collection of poetry – Love’s Cradle – touches the human emotions like a powerful patti smith song. the poems possess soft seductive whispers rising to wild hungry desires. Love’s Cradle speaks of a poet living for art, also being in love.”

Moitreyee Raju wrote:

“This collection is an embroidery of love and time beautifully juxtaposed in the poems composed by poet Sushant Thapa. The earthy demeanor with which he expresses his thoughts has left me wanting. Various different shades of love can be found in the book, all of which scripted in a down to earth fashion and while I was reading, I felt as if sitting under the cool shades of a large banyan tree. The visualization of love as a breezy chariot that carries us smoothly till the end of life’s journey comes out very clearly in these poems compiled under the title Love’s Cradle. Usage of philosophical expressions in the midst of so much simplicity tends to take one by surprise and that I think is unique in Thapa’s style of poetry writing.”