Rochelle Potkar's Blog, page 43
August 23, 2018
Three Events. Three Evenings.
24th | 25th | 26th August
Dear Friends,
You are graciously invited.
It would be lovely to see you.
~Rochelle
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Friday 24th August, 6 pm
Kitabkhana, Fort, Mumbai
At Kitabkhana for the launch of two poetry books Paper Asylum by Rochelle Potkar and A Clock in the Far Past by Sarabjeet Garcha.
Followed by readings, and a conversation with the acclaimed poet Menka Shivdasani.
The legendary poet Menka Shivdasani will be in conversation with Sarabjeet Garcha and I over the journey of our poetry. We will read from our books and converse on what keeps us at our words, and at the stillness of our breath, being, and blasphemy in this dynamic world of time, traffic, and technology.
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Saturday, 25th August 22
At The Monalisa Kalagram
Pingale Farms, Koregaon Park, Pune
Personal Geographies: Three poets: Many Landscapes, echoing through poetry
The launch of Paper Asylum by Rochelle Potkar and A Clock in the Far Past by Sarabjeet Garcha.
Followed by readings, and a conversation with the acclaimed poet Siddharth Dasgupta, also bringing his book The Wanderlust Conspiracy into discussion.
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Sunday 26th August, 7 pm
Nine Fish Art Gallery
The New Great Eastern Mills
Dr. Ambedkar Road, Byculla
Danish Husain’s and Denzil Smith’s Poetrification is back but with guest artists this time.
Curating the Indian English Poetry section will be the award-winning poet Rochelle Potkar, and on guitar will be Rohit Das as poetry should sound.
Tickets available on Bookmyshow and Insider.
August 21, 2018
Our poems to be performed by theatre actors! [23rd Aug, St. Andrew’s Audi, Bandra]
Our poems will be performed alongside each others, like boats bobbing, the sun splintering…, moonstone watching.
August 17, 2018
Book Launches by three poets, 25th August, 5 pm, Monalisa Kalagram, Pune – You are invited!
25 August, 5 pm. Monalisa Kalagram, Koregaon Park, Pune.
(Creative courtesy: Siddharth Dasgupta)
RSVP on the event page:
https://www.facebook.com/events/655537794818247/
August 8, 2018
Book Launches in Mumbai, 24th Aug, Kitab Khana – You are invited!
Inviting all friends in Mumbai to the book launches of ‘Paper Asylum‘ and ‘A Clock in the Far Past‘ at Kitab Khana, 24th August 2018, 6 pm.
Sarabjeet Garcha and I will be in conversation with the awe-inspiring Menka Shivdasani.
Please RSVP here at the Facebook event page.
The inaugural issue of the Usawa Literary Review carries my interview.
The inaugural issue of the Usawa Literary Review is here, edited by Lavanya Shanbhogue Arvind and Smita Sahay.
Read it. Enjoy he whole issue here!
July 31, 2018
Paper Asylum reviewed in Muse India by Akila G.
Where poet Akila G. reviews Paper Asylum in Muse India:
“The author’s vivid images pull us from deep within of our own madcap days, nights and lull noon where we aren’t mere spectators of time but find a figment of time in ourselves locked in the narrow corridors of livelihood and beliefs. Be it Aparanta, Manojji, the secretive Selena, Chabad House, the effervescent Spice garden, the juxtaposed Samsara, the ethereal Lake Vostok, to mention a few. The book explores the geography of skins of stories from love, lust, secrets, desires, dreams, hope, prayer, human interferences; a skyline of what makes us, moulds us, breaks and mends us in this journey of life that never misses an exclamation mark. In the author’s words:
‘Each wave coming and going decides’.”
Read the whole review here.
You can buy the book here.
Photo credit: Kinshuk Gupta
July 25, 2018
Poetry at Cuckoo club, Bandra
I will be reading some of my new poetry at the Cuckoo Club, Bandra tomorrow evening, 26th July 2018.
Meet me!
I am thinking of reading, ‘in that land under the sun’, ‘Amber’, ‘Key holes’ (not sure the Bandra crowd has heard it) or I will pick two other poems instead of ‘Key holes’. Decisions. Decisions. 
July 18, 2018
Haibun at the Hyderabad Huddle July 2018
Happy to be part of the Hyderabad Huddle on 29th July 2018.
Excited to be in the midst of SO many friends from Hyderabad!
There is lot more planned for this day.
For more details follow the FB page:
https://www.facebook.com/events/647598648949923/654693938240394
Editing the Collected Works of Joseph Furtado
One of the few projects as an Editor that I have been so proud to associate with is the collected works of Joseph Furtado.
The process probably turned my own page on understanding a long-ago Goa.
This book is soon to hit the stands by Cinnamon Teal Design and Publishing.
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This book is an act of memory to one of the finest poets India has birthed. A permanent collectible.
Golden Goa!
Against the backdrop of the Goa Inquisition, an ultimate love story between Babasino and Tulsibai unfurls through an ensemble cast of fidalguia and feringhees, traitress and brigands, saints and gamblers, slaves and concubines of a Goa unacquainted to contemporary times.
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Songs in Exile
A collection of poems through which we see love, jest, longing for motherland, and Bazar English arise.
This, by Joseph Furtado (1872-1945) one of the earliest but least-known Indian English poets from Goa.
The time and place for his words under the sun have finally come.
Reading my poems at The Goethe-Institut, Max Mueller Bhavan, Mumbai (video form)
That lovely festival with Crossover Poems, The Poetry Club (TPC), Women Empowered-India (WE), at The Goethe-Institut, Max Mueller Bhavan, Mumbai that brings in gushes of memory.
Three of my poems here for you: Ice Factory, Confluence, To Daraza.
