This review examines Dr Avik Gangopadhyay’s Lees of the Liminal: Amid Erehwon and Other Shadows, a collection of poems shaped by the tensions between memory and forgetting, identity and anonymity, imagination and reality, and life and death. The review argues that the collection locates poetic meaning within liminal spaces - thresholds where experience, memory, desire, and uncertainty continually intersect and transform one another. The book’s central metaphor of “lees,” understood as residue or what remains after experience, provides a framework for reading its meditations on inherited memory, unstable identity, mortality, and artistic consciousness. Particular attention is given to poems such as “In the Study,” “Issue of Blood,” “Unknown Identity,” “The Mirror Edits,” “Remnants of a Dream,” and “Me and You,” which explore the instability of the self and the reciprocal relationship between life and death. The review also considers Gangopadhyay’s use of dramatic personification, intertextuality, philosophical dialogue, and contemporary technological imagery to connect metaphysical questions with modern emotional experience. While the collection’s abstraction and resistance to conventional narrative may demand sustained and repeated reading, these qualities also enable multiple interpretive possibilities. Ultimately, Lees of the Liminal reads as a sustained movement not toward definitive answers but toward creating meaning through uncertainty. Its poetry transforms the residue of experience into artistic expression and presents liminality not as indecision, but as a space of possibility, reflection, and creative affirmation.