Candy Floss explores family, media, the rise and ebb of juvenile emotions
and most significantly, the subtle realization of feminine identity in an
urban setting. The text is an insight into the mind of a waning adolescent,
constructed in modern free verse, indicating the influence of Arvind
Krishna Mehrotra, Robert Frost, Wendy Cope, Ranjit Hoskoté, William
Carlos Williams and Carol Ann Duffy. Candy Floss is lined with optimism
and mischief, deliberately leaving a train of uncertainty in opinion and
identifiable confusion as the writer matures, while discarding a trail of
unanswered questions and unresolved angst. However, the writer looks at
her world as it is and pompously grieves for it.
