Papercut

Papercut is an intimate collection of poems that explores the fragility of being, the persistence of memory, and the silent discomforts that often go unnoticed in everyday life.

The poems move through stillness, fatigue, longing, emotional numbness, and reluctant endurance, drawing from ordinary experiences that leave lasting marks. Grounded in familiar settings and everyday observations, the collection reflects on identity, self-perception, belonging, and the emotional weight carried in seemingly negligible moments. Rather than relying on grand resolutions, the poems remain with ambiguity, restraint, and the act of quiet endurance, allowing small wounds to speak for themselves.

Papercut is a reflection on how pain does not need to be loud to be real, and how even the most invisible experiences can shape a life.

About the Author

Mum Tatak is a poet and academic from Arunachal Pradesh. She is an Assistant Professor of English at Indira Gandhi Government College, Tezu. Born and raised in Itanagar, she has witnessed the tensions between tradition and expansion in a rapidly changing landscape. Between these contrasts and adjustments, she brings Papercut, a collection that explores emotional discomfort, personal contradictions, identity, memory, and self-perception through everyday experiences.

While the poems often emerge from opposing forces, they remain grounded in quiet moments and ordinary struggles that leave lasting marks on the speaker. Papercut is her second poetry collection, following her debut, Hiraeth.

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