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.
Tag: Poetry
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.
By Rochelle Potkar
The poems in Oindri Sengupta’s ‘After the Fall of a Cloud’ seem to drift through devastation, levitating to new hinging of metaphysical abandon.
By Suranjana Choudhury
In making for himself a claim to write, the poet constantly negotiates with all the conflicting emotions that writing offers. It is the same with loving. Readers profoundly experience this truth, and that is enough.
By Annapurna Palit
The Rainbow is a recurrent metaphor in this collection and colour overrides Chakraborty’s poetic vision. Death, violence, loneliness, love and hope are represented by images of colour that glide slickly through the verses.
By B. Gopal Rao
Reading Jhilam’s poetry is an aesthetically satisfying experience since it is the product of a highly imaginative mind and sensitive soul.
By Nishi Pulugurtha
The poems in The Fern-Gatherer’s Association bring together ideas, images, associations, endowing the known and familiar with a dreaminess that fills the senses.
By Gopal Lahiri
Kavita Ezikiel’s latest poetry collection Light of the Sabbath stands out for its sheer promise, clarity and startling originality that lingers with you for a longer period. We feel a powerful sense of connection in the end.
By Sanjukta Dasgupta
This is a remarkable achievement and one hopes many more of Alokeranjan Dasgupta’s volumes of poetry will be translated by Sreemati Mukherjee.
By Nishi Pulugurtha
Usha Akella’s volume is a wonderful addition to the oeuvre of feminist poetry by a major poet of the diaspora.
By Dustin Pickering
Sanjeev Sethi’s verse is tedious and tricky for the novice reader but delightful for contemporary readers who enjoy challenging poetry.
By Gabriel Rosenstock
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That Fr. Stan wished to assassinate you?
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