Lamentations
ISBN: 9781763600980
Publisher: Gazebo Books
Year first published: 01 Apr 2026
Pages: 128
Format: Paperback / softback
In Lamentations, Subhash Jaireth composes a river of voices philosophical, tender, and reverent flowing through landscapes of memory, loss, and renewal. Part meditation, part love story, and part elegy for the natural world, these prose poems move between rivers and deserts, Bash and Hafez, Australia and Persia, tracing how water remembers, how language listens, and how grief transforms into grace.
Through the dialogue of two consciousnesses intimate, questioning, and profoundly attuned Jaireth explores the porous boundaries between the human and the elemental. Rivers become voices, rocks become listeners, and words themselves turn liquid, carrying echoes of the world's oldest stories.
A work of rare beauty and wisdom, Lamentations is both a hymn to water and a quiet reckoning with what it means to belong to a place, to another, and to the earth itself.