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HarperCollins At Canto Poetry Festival 2023
Celebrating the rich diversity of poetic voices, Canto Poetry Festival 2023 saw some of our favourite authors in conversation about their superb poetry collections.
Check out the authors below!
A four-day international, multilingual, multicultural, traveling poetry festival, held across Kolkata and New Delhi, from 15th to 19th of March 2023, Canto Poetry Festival brought together poets and writers in engaging conversations about the process of their writing and the intimate act of writing poetry.
From Akhil Katyal and Aditi Angiras’s edited anthology of South Asian Queer Poetry, The World That Belongs to Us, to Megha Rao’s powerful collection of poems in Teething, the sessions were carefully curated and offered audiences insightful interventions and ideas about poetry and its inherent ability to challenge language to narrate challenging, ‘marginal’ stories. Megha Rao was in conversation with Karuna Ezara Parikh, whose brilliant poems in Where Stories Gather testify to the power of the ordinary.
Mani Rao’s lyrical translation of the epic Sanskrit hymn, Saundarya Lahiri was also discussed. An ode to the primordial goddess, the hymn has been rendered beautifully in English by Rao. Rao talked to Alison James about her eloquent translation process.
In conversation with Lina Maria Ferreira Cabeza-Vanegas, Vivek Narayanan discussed his evocative, rebellious rendition of Valmiki’s Ramayana, as represented in his poetry cycles in After. Rohan Chhetri and Tishani Doshi also discussed their respective books in invigorating conversations.
Lastly, in a thoughtful conversation on poetry and translation, Joy Goswami was joined by his translator Sampurna Chattarji. They discussed his verses in After Death Comes Water and Selected Poems by Joy Goswami.
ABOUT CANTO POETRY FESTIVAL
CANTO: a four-day international, multilingual, multicultural, traveling poetry festival, held across Kolkata and New Delhi, from 15th to 19th of March 2023. This festival brought together some of the most eminent poets, translators and intellectuals globally, including George Szirtes (Man International Booker Prize, T.S. Elliot Prize), Vijay Seshadri (Pulitzer Prize for Poetry), Daljit Nagra (Forward Prize), Wendy Doniger (PEN Oakland/Josephine Miles Award, Tishani Doshi (Forward Prize, Eric Greegory Award), Amit Chaudhuri (Commonwealth Writer’s Prize & Infosys Prize in Humanities), Rosanna Warren (American Academy of Arts & Letters, Guggenheim Foundation), K. Satchidanandan (Dante Medal), Bibek Debroy (Padma Shri) and a host of Sahitya Akademi Award winners, including Joy Goswami, Anita Nair, and Arundhati Subramaniam. The festival is curated and directed by Avik Chanda. Lina Ferreira Cabeza-Vanegas is the festival advisor.
BOOKS IN FOCUS:
About the Book - The World That Belongs To Us
'A bold and necessary correction to the subcontinent's poetry canon.' - Jeet Thayil This first-of-its-kind anthology brings together the best of contemporary queer poetry from South Asia, both from the subcontinent and its many diasporas.The anthology features well-known voices like…
About the Author - Akhil Katyal
To read more, order your copy of The World That Belongs To Us, by Akhil Katyal today!
₹ 599.0000
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About the Book - Saundarya Lahari
Saundarya Lahari is a popular Sanskrit hymn celebrating the power and beauty of Sakti, the primordial goddess. In one hundred verses, it underlines the centrality of the feminine principle in Indian thought.Attributed to Adi Sankaracarya, Saundarya Lahari is a valuable…
To read more, order your copy of Saundarya Lahari, by Mani Rao today!
₹ 399.0000
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About the Book - Teething
A story told in verse, Teething begins when Kochu, a young boy in Kerala, is caught kissing the neighbour's son. All hell breaks loose, ending in Kochu taking his own life. Years after the scandal, after discovering his suicide note,…
About the Book - Where Stories Gather
Where Stories Gather, Karuna Ezara Parikh's first volume of poetry, presents a curation of her most popular work alongside new material where she delves into a deeply personal realm, asking and answering questions of identity, memory, womanhood, and the heart.…
About the Author - Karuna Ezara Parikh
To read more, order your copy of Where Stories Gather, by Karuna Ezara Parikh today!
₹ 399.0000
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About the Book - After
After is a collection of poems inspired by Valmiki's Ramayana, one of India's foundational epics and a story cycle of incalculable historical importance.But After does not just come after the Ramayana. On each successive page, Vivek Narayanan brings the resources…
About the Author - Vivek Narayanan
Vivek Narayanan’s books of poetry include Universal Beach and Life and Times of Mr S. He has been a Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute at Harvard University and a Cullman Fellow at the New York Public Library. A full-length collection…
To read more, order your copy of After, by Vivek Narayanan today!
₹ 899.0000
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About the Book - Lost, Hurt, or in Transit Beautiful
'This book has pain and it has discovery. It has wonder. It has the spell of a story and the effortlessness of a song. Which is why I hope it finds its way into you, your hands, readers.' Ilya Kaminsky,…
About the Author - Rohan Chhetri
To read more, order your copy of Lost, Hurt, or in Transit Beautiful, by Rohan Chhetri today!
₹ 399.0000
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About the Book - A God at the Door
Shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best Collection 2021'May we always have the music and elegant fury of Tishani Doshi's poetry.'FATIMA BHUTTO'The poems of Tishani Doshi's A God at the Door operate on the grand scale, reaching for visionary responses…
About the Author - Tishani Doshi
Tishani Doshi is the author of six books of fiction and poetry. Girls are Coming Out of the Woods, shortlisted for the Ted Hughes Award, and Small Days and Nights, are her most recent books.
To read more, order your copy of A God at the Door, by Tishani Doshi today!
₹ 499.0000
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About the Book - After Death Comes Water
'Allow yourself to be outraged and furious, allow yourself to be swept into Joy Goswami's intimate world of passion. His poems are breathtaking. They will momentarily remind you of the time you were resting your head on the chest of…
About the Author - Joy Goswami
Joy Goswami is one of Bengal’s foremost poets, with more than thirty published books. His many awards include the Ananda Puroshkar and the Sahitya Akademi Award. Sampurna Chattarji is a poet, novelist and translator. Of her ten books, the most…
About the Author - Sampurna Chattarji
Sampurna Chattarji’s sixteen books include a short-story collection about Bombay/Mumbai, Dirty Love; a translation of Joy Goswami’s Selected Poems; and seven poetry titles, the most recent being Elsewhere Where Else / Lle Arall Ble Arall, co-authored with Eurig Salisbury; and…
To read more, order your copy of After Death Comes Water, by Joy Goswami | Sampurna Chattarji today!
₹ 399.0000
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