Two African paradise flycatchers, grey-headed and chestnut-winged, decide to join in the revelry and warble as they flit in and out of the guava tree that spreads over most of the lawn.
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"The story of Akagera National Park is one of remarkable recovery... this place was filled with African wild dogs, but a disease eliminated all of them. Yet there are so many species we have brought back to life."
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The poems shift from the familiar and recognisable to the unfamiliar and uncongenial in just a few words, and just as easily back again. It is Gangopadhyay’s metier.
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My challenge lay in shifting the reader’s focus from the physical to the metaphysical journey and moving their cognition from visceral and visual to one that is markedly less so.
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