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...
Five Poems by John Tustin
A Cradle of Fire
This life.
Again and again reliving
In my mind
A moment in this life
When I touched you
(As if emerging in a morning
To touch the...
Poems by John Grey
A Rose by its name only
This is it –
a rose,
not quite pink,
not quite yellow,
but both at once,
and red and white besides.
Awed by its beauty,
sniffing...
Minimalist Poetry : Elmedin Kadric
his word on paper an eggshell missing a prayer
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grown to rain on alone
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of each fragrance not with it
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dry hush of leaves laid off
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blue dusk
the...
Poems by Christina Petrides
Drugstore Blues
My grandma noisily swigged dregs
of chocolate shake through a limp straw.
Flavored milk filmed her empty glass.
“I’m playing the drugstore blues,”
she declared...
Poems by Prathap Kamath
Burnt down forest
It is bad when about sixteen years of life
lie like a patch of burnt down forest –
black, charcoaled, ash-bordered,
...
Malayalam Poetry : Rafeeq Ahamed’s Poems
Malayalam Poetry in Translation – 7
Translated by Aditya Shankar
(Translator’s Note: The finest of contemporary Malayalam poetry represents the latest poetic sensibility that is on view...
Poems by Michael G. Smith
During the fall of 2019 Michael G. Smith was a writing resident at Gullkistan Center for Creativity (http://gullkistan.is/). Gullkistan is located in the Icelandic...
Malayalam Poetry : V. M. Girija’s Poems
Malayalam Poetry in Translation Series – 10
Translated by Aditya Shankar
(Translator’s Note: The finest of contemporary Malayalam poetry represents the latest poetic sensibility that is on...
2 Poems by Zoran Pešić Sigma
Translated by Danijela Trajković
The World is an Infinite Black Mattress
The world is an infinite black mattress
on which small gray beings jump
occasionally God angry
calm down...
