Malayalam Poetry : Anita Thampi’s Poems
Malayalam Poetry in Translation Series – 17
Translated by Aditya Shankar
The history of modern Malayalam poetry is a narrative of continuous innovation, gradual emancipation from...
Poems by Nenad Trajković
Translated by Danijela Trajković
Marketing Fraud
it's good that there are commercials
about great new things
where your consciousness travels to
removed from the courage of the decision
somebody else...
Poems by Oisin Breen
Origin Myths
Those lust plucked melodies,
Sung snug beneath the eiderdown,
As we titter to each other
...
Poems by Michael Angel Martin
Cholina
When my mother dies
I learn I never knew her.
But she told me two stories,
two girlhood miracles.
At ten she saves her family
from a crocodile stalking
in...
Malayalam Poetry : Mangad Ratnakaran’s Poems
Malayalam Poetry in Translation – 5
Translated by Aditya Shankar
(Translator’s Note: The finest of contemporary Malayalam poetry represents the latest poetic sensibility that is on view...
Panopticon – Poems by Ashalatha
Translated from Malayalam by Ra Sh
A. In the time of Cholera
As God observed from the observation tower,
two kids, boy and girl, barely out of...
Three Poems : By Michael G. Smith
How To Approach a Tree
As if it were the sole
being in a sea of hot sand,
its furrowed bark an open
gate to the pure land
you...
Malayalam Poetry : Sreekumar Kariyad’s Poems
Malayalam Poetry in Translation Series – 30
Translated by Aditya Shankar
More than any other genre in Malayalam literature, poetry has articulated the profound contradictions of...
Tanka by Gabriel Rosenstock
Gabriel Rosenstock’s Tanka Series – 8
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if the bird is there
that is all i need to know
let it sing or not
beloved, if You...
Malayalam Poetry : S. Kannan’s Poems
Malayalam Poetry in Translation Series – 21
Translated by Aditya Shankar
More than any other genre in Malayalam literature, poetry has articulated the profound contradictions of...