India, Feb. 20 -- With over 70 national and international honours to her name, including the Chandigarh Sahitya Akademi Award, the Cesar Vallejo Award for Literary Excellence and the Reuel International Award for Poetry, Lily Swarn has long been a formidable presence in the literary world. The International Beat Poet Laureate (India) and a multilingual writer whose work has been translated into 21 languages, Swarn now returns with her 10th book and sixth poetry collection, A Drop of Cosmos.

An acclaimed author of titles such as Rippling Moonbeams (which won the Chandigarh Sahitya Akademi Award), The Divine Dialect of Flowers (recipient of the Panorama Golden Book Award), History on my Plate and the novel The Gypsy Trail, Swarn moves flui...