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The Lizard Incident – By Richard Risemberg
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The couple, Mr. and Mrs. Baumgarten, prided themselves on being thought kindly. Though both had led rather wild lives in their youth, theirs had...
Thoughts on Modernist poetry – By Colin Ian Jeffery
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Modernist literature is characterized by a break with traditions of literary subjects, forms, concepts and styles, with the movement associated with new trends in...
Viktor Pelevin, a Reminder of What Was, and What May Come Again in Russia
By Jim Curtis
Viktor Pelevin (b. 1962) is arguably the key figure for anyone who wants to understand post-Stalinist, post-Soviet Russian culture, particularly with regard...
Your Hands – By Kunal Mehra
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..story about my mother’s hands and all they’ve borne witness to, and how our hands can store memories and be the reservoir of our...
The Bone-Crushers – By Jeanne Farewell
They did not just crush them: they ate them. Some of the bones were of animals from the slaughterhouse; others were human bones from...
The Knower and the Known
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Book Review by Anjana BasuKhwaja Abdullah Ansari lived in Khorasan and over time became known for being a commentator of the Qur’an and spiritual...
Knotted Grief – By Naveen Kishore
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Book Review by Anjana Basu
Knotted Grief - Poems by Naveen Kishore
Cruelty and Compassion
Naveen Kishore is that unusual combination of publisher and writer. As the...
The Many Shades of Vikram Seth’s Poetry
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By Anjana Basu
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What sets Vikram Seth’s poetry apart is its craft. He uses forms of poetry that have fallen by the wayside, exploring the...
In The Mirror, Our Graves – By Ritamvara Bhattacharya and Ra Sh
Book Review By – Soma Roy
A series of poems exchanged between two poets who have never met and are separated by vast expanses of...
Poet, First and Last – K. Satchidanandan
An Interview with K. Satchidanandan
Interviewed by Asmaa Azaizeh
Language as a theme and subject is strongly present in your poems. I’d like you to describe...
My Questions, My Answers – Colin Ian Jeffery
What age were you when you first became interested in poetry?
Seven, a choirboy, when I heard the vicar in the church read the twenty-third...
My Questions, My Answers – Ravi Shanker N ( Ra Sh)
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Let’s start from the present. You just released a Book of Love. What is that and why is that? How is it different?
It’s a...
My Questions, My Answers – Kerry Shawn Keys
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Tell us about the early part of your life and how this is reflected in your poetry, later. And what about sports…you were, we...
