My Dead Flowers comes as the second book in the Thayil Editions series. The book weaves together poetry and photography by Buku Sarkar to tell a story that explores love, loss and the emotions we often struggle to put into words. At its heart, it's not just any other book, but one that lingers on and stays with long after you're done reading.

With a strong confessional tone, the poems instead of being polished linear pieces, are more like little fragments of thought. This makes the book like a window into the writer's mind. These poems are also described as rivers that flow freely across cities like New York, Paris and Kolkata. Some themes I came across in the book were of love, loss, urban solitude and vulnerability. The photographs deepen the effect of reading this book by echoing the emotions from the poetry.

My Dead Flowers feels less like a book and more like a quiet drift through love, memory, and survival—told in fragments where poems resemble photographs, and photographs linger like emotions that refuse to fully fade.