There are only two stories, John Gardner once wrote—a person goes on a journey, or a stranger comes to town. Perumal Murugan’s Neduneram (A Long Time) is both.
The Art of Unboxing is a debut collection of poems drawn from a decade of reading, writing and reviewing poetry. The poems move beyond the visible world to explore deeper questions of life, identity, and existence.
Chitra Kalyani — Excerpt: A series of poems trace the body—breasts and spine, eye and tooth—reconciling it with its nature: physical, biological, mortal.
Alka Balain — Excerpt: The Hour of God opens with a sacred invocation to wholeness from the Brihadaranyaka Upanishad, and this invocation sets the tone of the collection.
Mark Mullan — Excerpt: Hanna Nielson’s debut is a joyous Joycean romp through a single wintery night in post-Troubles Belfast that asks: If all of life is a play, do we write our own lines?