About the Book: Nirmal Ghosh’s The Weeds That Grow in Cemeteries is a moody, poignant collection of 109 modern, sparsely worded poems that delve into themes of love, loss, and longing. The collection features a speaker perpetually addressing an unnamed ‘you’ whose constant arrivals and departures take place against vivid, global backdrops—from cold Irish mornings and the Perfume River to the Tuileries and the tombs of Samarkand. Through powerful, unsentimental verses rich with sensory details of heat, rain, and mountains, Ghosh explores how time and seasons transform in the aftermath of loss, and how the natural world mirrors our deepest emotional lives, offering a richly layered view of the human condition.