Rochelle Potkar's Blog, page 36
May 24, 2019
‘Prose with Poetry’ – a workshop at Oxford Bookstore, CP, Delhi
Welcoming you to ‘Prose with Poetry’ – a haibun workshop at Oxford Bookstore, Connaught Place, Delhi on 28th June (Friday) 12-2 pm.
500/- registration.
Click on the FB event page:
https://www.facebook.com/events/2284957658432821/
May 23, 2019
‘Paper Asylum’ reviewed in Indian Literature
‘Paper Asylum’ reviewed in the Sahitya Akademi’s Indian Literature, a year after it was first released. Thanking Rumi Malik for a deeply engaging review.
May 15, 2019
My poems in the Joao-Roque Literary Journal
May 11, 2019
My short story ‘Twilight’ now in German.
Glad that my short story ‘Twilight’ is now part of the Family anthology/Familienanthologie – ‘Kleinkrieg Und Frieden’, translated by Frank Joussen, D C Hubbard.
For those who enjoy reading in German.
May 10, 2019
My poem ‘Amber’ appears in the Proverse Poetry Prize Anthology 2018
My poem ‘Amber’ appears in the Proverse Poetry Prize Anthology 2018: Mingle Voices 3.
Received a copy in the post this morning.
May 6, 2019
My haiku (translated) in Bengali!
Prasenjit Dasgupta has translated 12 of my haiku into Bengali, published on 4numberplatform.com.
What say, friends who can read Bengali?
Click to read here.
May 4, 2019
My author page on Facebook
Dear Friends,
(some narcissistic pleasure)
I have finally jumped the bandwagon and created a page for centralized postings of my literary milestones.
Please do join for updates on stories, poems, books, publications.
Just now my Pratilipi India page crossed 10,000 reads and I’ve shared it there.
https://www.facebook.com/potkarrochelle/
See ya!
April 20, 2019
Moving on…
Now as I move on to newer projects: concentrating on my third book of poetry The Inglorious Coins of the Counting House (longlisted for the Eyewear Publishing Beverley Prize UK), for which I received blurbs from international poets, I want to hark back, with a swim in nostalgia, at my three previous books:
If you like, short stories go for The Arithmetic of Breasts and Other Stories as I think of where best to place Hangovers from a Bombay debacle, my upcoming short story collection.
April 13, 2019
Narrow Road Vol. 7 is out!
Narrow Road Vol 7 is out!
I enjoyed being the haibun guest editor.
Enjoy your Sunday reading!
Read on Scribd.
April 2, 2019
My third poetry book, longlisted for the Beverly Prize UK
Celebrating this milestone: my third book of poetry ‘The Inglorious Coins of the Counting House’ longlisted for the Eyewear Publishing Beverley Prize UK.
Gee!







