Famous poet Fleur Adcock said, “Poetry is a search for ways of communication; it must be conducted with openness, flexibility, and a constant readiness to listen.” This is exactly what Sharanya Manivannan’s poetry reading at Spaces, Besant Nagar, was all about. She communicated with the audience in a sensual and emotional manner, reading out a select 20 poems from her soon-to-be published manuscripts, Bulletproof Offering and Cadaver Exquisito. Sharanya, who grew up in Sri Lanka, began writing poetry at the age of seven. In her poem The Chicken Trusser , she gets lucid and extremely descriptive about a scene she witnessed at a market place. Similarly, in most of her poems, she reflects on incidents from her personal life. “Her poems are a personification of her,” said Manoj, a friend of hers. “My work is rooted in the self in very fundamental ways, but there a number of sieves through which that raw essence is distilled. Among them mythology, the pursuit of narrative and recurring motifs,” said Sharanya. Some of the poems that she read out were Dawn poem, Light years, The secret of secrets, Assignation, Nocturne and Distant star.