By Neera Kashyap
It is this diversity of talent in multiple genres that is reflected in Makhija’s new collection of poems, ‘Changing, Unchanging: New and selected poems (1995-2023), published by Red River.
Tag: Poetry
By Rajeswari Sarangi
Bound in shadows,
can our last wishes
morph into a wandering
minstrel of our spirits?
By Rajorshi Patranabis
Neha Bansal’s collection of poems, Six of Cupa, published by Hawakal Publishers, is a book of myriad nostalgia delving into the depths of mostly forgotten human emotions.
By Jagari Mukherjee
The Buddha in Buddha and Void is the symbol and metaphor of true love – a lotus blooming in the hidden depths of the lover’s soul.
By Rakhi Dalal
The poems in Mitali Chakravarty’s ‘Flight of the Angsana Oriole’, contain stories of hope, wonder, love, despair, loss, and grief.
By Nishi Pulugurtha
Gopal Lahiri’s ‘Crossing the Shoreline’ reveals a mature poet working on his craft and fashioning new forms in ways that only a prolific poet can.
By Somudranil Sarkar
Wives is a unique collection. Ankit Raj Ojha has curated and edited this wonderful collection with such finesse that it demands special attention.
By Nishi Pulugurtha
‘Home Anthology’ is marked by a “plurality of approach” and it is this plurality that strikes one as one reads the poems in it.
By Mohammad Asim Siddiqui
Bilal’s translation is enriched by an extremely well-written and comprehensive introduction about the poem running into more than fifty pages.
By Dustin Pickering
Rajorshi Patranabis ‘Palette’ is an appropriate title as the collection is riddled with colors defining moods and actions throughout.
By Somudranil Sarkar
‘Dreich Planet India’, edited by Sanjeev Sethi (a handmade chapbook made in Scotland, published by Hybriddreich Limited Dunfermline), emerges as germane to the poetry celebrating Indian Independence.
By Gopal Lahiri
Raindrop on the Periwinkle opens up a new vista in form poems and stands out for its sheer promise and startling originality and quietness.
By Chaitali Sengupta
This volume of poetry has turned out to be a valuable discourse on cultural dualities, hybrid identities, emphasizing on paradox, conflict, feminism, and marginalization. It deserves a wide readership.
By Nishi Pulugurtha
Afsar Mohammed’s Evening with a Sufi, translated from Telugu by Afsar Mohammed and Shamala Gallagher and published by Red River, is a collection of poems that has been selected from several of his poetry volumes in Telugu.
By Atreyee Majumder
Kaminsky yearns in the way that I have only seen Shahid Ali yearn and probably no one else. There is no way out of empire, of America, of war, of trauma. The only escape is the madness of language.
By Namrata Pathak
Like Barthes, in Malhotra’s poems, too, we come across the lover’s inner monologue, in which the readers will find themselves anchored or at least recognize a speck of their personality or a part of their being.
By Dustin Pickering
Srividya Sivakumar and Paresh Tiwari’s anthology, The Shape of a Poem: The Red River Book of Contemporary Erotic Poetry, heartily admits through many of its poets, the erotic stimulates the imagination but is something that remains unfulfilled.
By Chaitali Sengupta
Santosh Bakaya’s ‘Runcible Spoons and Peagreen Boats’ is a fascinating memoir in the poetic form where the poet recounts the pivotal moments in a way that either catches your heart or makes you stop and look back at your own life and reflect.
By Umar Timol
During a trip to Trivandrum, India, in 2019, a city which greatly resembles Port-Louis, the capital of Mauritius, I visited her grave which is found at the Palayam Jumah Masjid, a mosque, accompanied by my Indian poet friend, Chandramohan.
By Sabreen Ahmed
The everyday wonderland concocted through a maze of measured words is the crux of Goswami’s poetic vision of peaceful contentment in concordance with the acceptance of the vital signs of living.
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