The Forlorn Enchantress: Verses Distilled in Love is a collection of forty four poems painting the boundless manifestations of love on the canvas of life. The anthology depicts love in all its hues, as seen, felt, imagined and understood by the poetess in her moments of poetic flights of fantasy. The different relationships in life are meticulously explored and the presence and transience of love in each of them either as agony or as ecstasy finds its expression. The scope of and for love is limitless and immeasurable; each piece of poetry in this collection tries to visualise some form of love from a typically feminine angle - It could be the conjugal love between two lovers; it could be a one-dimensional flow of passionate love; it could even be an imaginative romanticisation of love or a sublimation of love following the trauma of loss, abandonment or a crisis. The pleasure experienced through love is soothing but with it one can juxtapose the emotional pain felt in love. These dual emotions coexist in life making it complete and fulfilling. Such sensitivity finds its way through the language of poetry. Outbursts of love and even love in its suppressed form along with its perplexities have shaped the form and content of this anthology.Isha Maheshwari hails from Raniganj, West Bengal and she works as a Post Graduate Teacher in English at SKS Public School, Raniganj. She was born on 7th May, 1983. Having completed her schooling in the Assembly of God Church School Asansol, West Bengal and her post-graduation in English Language and Literature from Annamalai University Chennai, she discovered a flair for writing poetry on what she felt and found in her immediate surroundings. Her musings on life and love centre mostly on human relations in its myriad manifestations. She loves to juxtapose her poems with the complexities and contradictions of human life. The quest of man to mend his relationship with nature and his loved ones and the pleasures and pains involved in this strife is what she seeks to articulate through her poems. She takes delight in exploring the expanse of love as reflected through the prism of human relations and natural phenomena.With a passion to be amidst nature, far away from the hustles and the rat-race of life, she wishes to probe into the reasons for human life which she thinks has a far greater relevance than humans themselves realise. She believes that man ought to have a dauntless spirit to overcome obstacles and live life to the fullest.