The Brave New World of Goa Writing & Art 2025 features some of Goa's most outstanding poets. Buy the book to read the poems in full but here is a sampling.
And always that red hill with the white cross atop it, ringed by a low redstone wall curved across the crest, grass over it thickly, everywhere dry grass a sluggish noonbreeze parting it to show the hand-hewn blocks, Gavin Barrett in Baga, Salcette You wake up and it is already lateAugust. At ten-past-six the kingfisher leaves its perch with an ear-splittingcall. It’s a silver morning chiming with the sounds of doves, orioles, prinias,coucals, drongos and a solitary orange thrush which sings with greatenthusiasm. The webs of grass spiders glisten with dew. Salil Chaturvedi in Ghosts of a Grove the pilgrims of zatra bisect the novena procession celebration and supplication in a herringbone of faith the drifts of a fishing net diamond-knit seeking silver scales haul in lost sailors Mrinalini Harchandrai in Cross Orangesweets may fail you Meltingglutinously in fat-necked bottles Orangepeel will not. Dry,it will dispel the nausea of exile, Wet,it will spurt rage into the eyes Of awet-lipped sailor Attractedby the smell of a girl’s first bleeding. Jerry Pinto in Exiled from Burma There shouldhave been a citadel of love. A civilization built by a river on the reapingprofits of desire. Where the bottom-line, the ROI, the spring and harvest werejust: tenderness. Rochelle Potkar in Citadel i. April, Briefly April leans in like an unlatched door— not quite May, but no longer the half-hot half-cool riddle of March. The sky forgetsits lines—murmurs cloud-scriptin looping cursive, Tino de Sa in Three Months in Goa Visit Dogears Margao Bookshop for a copy or order online:https://www.thedogearsbookshop.com/?v=7885444af42e All best,Selma CarvalhoAuthor of "Sisterhood of Swans" and "Notes on a Marriage" both published by Speaking Tiger, India. -- *** Please be polite and on-topic in your posts. *** --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Goa Book Club" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion, visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/goa-book-club/1107691220.5130861.1762272647018%40mail.yahoo.com.
