XXL – By Aditya Shankar
Review by Rajesh Subramanian
Aditya Shankar has been trying to set a unique poetic path for himself, with an unusual language structure, metaphoric themes and...
I was the Wind Last Night (New & Collected Poems)- Ruskin Bond
By Anjana Basu
Mountains of Silence
Ruskin Bond’s poetry, like his prose is without pretentions. His verses are rhymed in some cases, not in some and...
No Such Thing As Distance – Karen Paul Holmes
Review by Lynn Alexander
When you enter Karen Paul Holmes’s poetry, you travel a path between love and death, joy and anguish, gravity and humor—the...
‘Landscape Painted with Tea’ as an Ecological Novel – By Jasmina Mihajlovic
"Suddenly I freeze. I sense, I clearly sense, somebody watching me. Somebody's eyes are fixed upon me. And then I realize that staring out...
Speaking in tongues: Alvin Pang’s poetry – By Alfred A. Yuson
Our good buddy Alvin Pang of Singapore has just authored a new poetry collection: What Happened: Poems 1997 – 2017, edited and with a...
In my Patina Cup- By Sadia Khan
Book Review by Shazia Batool Naqvi
The metaphorical Title of this volume: “In my Patina Cup” brought to mind the gem words of Muriel Rukeyser(1):...
Aura – ( A Novel by Carlos Fuentes ) By Ted Gioia
Felipe Montero sits reading a newspaper in a seedy café, when he is startled by a classified ad. The solicitation seems written with him...
Naishapur and Babylon – By Keki N. Daruwalla
Review by Anjana Basu
Despite the Machine Guns
The warped image of a kingfisher in the water - at least it is a bird, at least...
Don’t Run, My Love – A Novella by Easterine Kire
Book Review by: Anjana Basu
Easterine Kire takes Naga folk tales and weaves them into stories that could belong to any time and place, set...
Ceremonial – By Carly Joy Miller
Review by: Rajesh Subramanian
The poems in this collection are refreshingly different - in terms of their style, content and poetic poignancy. You catch hold...
