Nikita Gill
Nikita Gill is an Irish-Indian poet with a world-wide fan-base of over 650,000 Instagram followers. Her poetry collections and plays offer a largely female readership the chance to recognise the value of their own experiences. Gill has written seven collections of poetry including Your Soul Is A River and Your Heart is the Sea, as well as the novel in verse The Girl and Goddess which highlights Hindu mythology. She is the editor of the poetry anthology SLAM! Source
Another Story
You didn’t like the last story in your life’s book,
so you wrote yourself another one.
In this story,
you do not wear your body as an apology.
Instead you wear it like a quiet revolution,
you carry the future in the back pocket of your jeans,
say girl, say glory
each step forward is an amen
Published:
2022
Length:
Shorty
Literary Movements:
Contemporary
Anthology Years:
2025
Themes:
Agency
Body & Body Image
Faith & Hope
Womanhood
Literary Devices:
Consonance
the recurrence of similar sounds, especially consonants, in close proximity
Couplets
two lines of verse, usually in the same meter and joined by rhyme, that form a unit
Extended Metaphor
a metaphor that extends through several lines or even an entire poem
Simile
a comparison between two unlike things using the words “like” or “as”