The Dance Of The Peacock

An anthology of Indian Poets edited by Dr Vivekanand Jha and published in Canada by Hidden Brook Press.

This 500 page anthology is a labour of love on the part of the editor who has brought together the work of 151 poets ranging in age from 15 to 92 years. Dip into it to be surprised.

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#CmonBaby LightMyPyre

My latest blog for Birkbeck’s Writers’ Hub is on funeral-comedy and about what inspired me to write my short story ‘When you go, you leave a farce’. The story will be published September 2013 in the Mechanics’ Institute Review in its special tenth anniversary edition.

Muse India

Poetising Indian Heritage – A feature by Usha Kishore

It includes three poems of mine; one of which was only available in print before: ‘It Was In May. The Sky Poured.’

A poem for International Women’s Day

Anything but

(On Not Being a Muse)

I will write it
And if you like
I will sing it

I will arrange it, strum it
Pick it, drum it

I will edit it, compress it,
Finesse it, billboard it

I will design it, knit it,
Dye it, fit it

I will brushstroke it, pleat it
Murmur philosophy beneath it

Gladly I will do it all
Anything but be
Static while you are active
Anything but be
The one from whom you draw
What you make your own.

 

First Published in the anthology ‘Not A Muse‘ in 2009

Poets Reading Poets

Poets Reading Poets is a wonderful series on Writers’ Hub for which I am pleased to choose a poem by Arun Kolatkar.