Rochelle Potkar's Blog, page 59
June 14, 2016
Kritya hosts my poems
Read some of them here: http://www.kritya.in/0911/En/poetry_at_our_time.html
In which journalist Arundhuti Banerjee interviews me…
An interview in which journalist Arundhuti Banerjee does me in, on her blog.
40 under 40 – An Anthology of Post-Globalization poetry is out!
My poems too feature in this book.
Edited by Nabina Das & Semeen Ali, this book is published by Poetrywala, and it is available here:
https://www.paperwall.in/books/85/40-Under-40
Dubbing for Taramani, Chennai
The real purpose of going to Chennai this time was to complete my dubbing. I was worried about doing those four scenes without retakes. Different people had said different things about dubbing – that it was hard, that the voice cracked up at the end of the day…
Mine went well only because of director Ram. He can facilitate the moment – making a tough task quite easy.
(with Delani, Anjana, Ram, and Amudhavan.)
This, outside the recording studio.
The moon was a full blast round I remember, that night.
Oh, yes and the Taramani teaser: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g2UTRys5iTw&feature=youtu.be
Poetry at the Square: chennai
This was a good experience. Naiduji and I spoke about a few poems from Four Degrees of Separation. I read quite a few poems and then we opened it up to an open mic of eclectic Tamil, English and Urdu poetry.
I went away full, not empty, as happens so many times when one has to speak but not receive or listen…
Poetry editor of The Bombay Review
As July approaches, I am soon to be the Poetry Editor of The Bombay Review.
Looking forward to this new role and working with the team of The Bombay Review.
Thrilled, actually!
May 8, 2016
Mid-day carries my interview around Four Degrees of Separation…
My interview around the book and my transition to the city appears in Mid-day, page 31, date: 5th May 2016.
Caesurae carries my work – two poems and a haibun
Between the time of submitting this haibun and now as I read it, my fingers quiver the scissorhand way for one more round of edits. Is this an attack of evolution? Or does the Word always behave in a work-in-progress way? You decide. But besides this internal cacophony, I am proud to be on Caesurae’s pages, ably handled by Jayita Sengupta. There’s music, fugue, sound, scenery, elemental styles moving between each line. I am waiting for the weekend to devour the whole issue.
Book Reviews: Four Degrees of Separation
2. And here Goirick Brahmachari finely reviews my book Four Degrees of Separation in the Sunday Guardian.
http://www.sundayguardianlive.com/books/4346-book-review-personal-poems-evoke-sense-universal
My first review was finely done by Ampat Koshy.
The Quint carries my views on Pratyusha
Pratyusha has been on our minds, at least on my mind, and every turn and twist has brought in new sides to her story. But at the core I keep wondering of the last minutes of Vemula’s life, the last minutes of any life. What does it hold? Why do we give it all up? Why do we subscribe to that throwaway ending – the premature act three’s of our lives? Glad that The Quint chose to carry my views.
