<p>Considering the fact that the poetry of Kamala Das, one of the canonical poets of the postcolonial times to have arrested the scrutiny of a greater number of critics than probably any other Indian English poet, has been subjected to some recognizable readings, this paper, based on qualitative research, purports to engage with the questions of space in her poetry, an area of study mostly unexplored. An analysis of the spatial dimensions of her poems reveals some ‘anxieties’ and ‘disorientations’ which are usually glossed over in the discussions of her poetry. While Das was writing, ‘space’, ‘place’ and ‘geography’ assumed importance in the global context. As a writer Das was impacted by that phenomenon, and her attempts to create a ‘room’ of her own were informed by the “spatial turn” in literature. Das rebelled against the socially and politically prescribed dictates of time, and used her poetry to ‘map’ the claustrophobic and disorienting social space women belonged to. A study of such aspects of spatiality studies in her poetry as cognitive mapping, deterritorialization, chronotope, the ‘real-imagined’ space, the ‘primary-secondary’ spaces, the shared spaces etc. lays bare the structure of her creative mind and offers fresh perspectives on her poetry.</p>