My new poem “That Watching is Harder than to Asphyxiate” appears in an exciting online anthology called Writers Against Prejudice (September 3, 2016). Many thanks to editor Marie Lightman for saying yes to this poem.
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I am grateful & honored that the editors at Erbacce Press (Liverpool, UK) liked four of my poems from the Erbacce Poetry Contest 2016 enough to include in their latest issue (46). These poems, Daisy, On a hook, Song & the bottom of the root, & Telescope & night ornaments, had been longlisted for the contest. I was not aware they would be published in their print magazine. So when I received the magazine featuring my work alongside that of some fine poets from different corners of the world, I was really surprised & delighted. Thanks again Alan Corkish & Andrew Taylor.
Click here to read the poems : Daisy , On a Hook, Song & the bottom of the root, & Telescope & night ornaments
Note: Song & the bottom of the root was first published in The Curly Mind on January 23, 2016 & Telescope & night ornaments was first published in The New Verse News on March 26, 2016. And I have added here a more recent version of the piece Daisy.
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Interview with Maggie Mackay, an amazing Scottish poet!
I have an unapologetical love for political poems. And I always expect to find a creative distinction & intensity in those poems. I first read Maggie MacKay on IANASP : “I slave in his kitchens,/ my belly fired after him rape mi in the scullery/ like I was his peaberry fruit./ His boasts ride on fiddle jigs into the valley/ where my baby sleeps.” (Jamaican Macabre) I immediately liked her brutally honest voice & her clever way with words & sounds. At that point of time, I didn’t know the editor of IANASP would run a Poet’s Interview series & I would have the privilege & honor to ask her a few questions about her writing. And working on that project gave me the wonderful opportunity to discover more of her work. Maggie has published in various print and online publications, including
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So delighted three poems of mine, Sea-bound stroll, Between roots & wings & Wrappings of misnomer, found a home in a fine print & online magazine published from India (July 23, 2016). Many thanks to Krishna Prasad, editor in chief of The Wagon Magazine for including my poems in their latest issue (Vol 1, Issue 4, July 2016).
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Sea-bound stroll, Between roots & wings, Warppings of misnomer
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Many thanks to Reuben Woolley, editor at I am not a silent poet for running a poem of mine called Nice, Bastille Day 2016 (July 19, 2016).
Read the poem here : Nice, Bastille Day 2016
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Mother, nothing ain’t over yet, a poem of mine dedicated to the mothers of the disappeared in Kashmir is now up today at I am not a silent poet (July 19, 2016). My special thanks to Reuben Woolley.
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Delighted to have two new poems, “menos tu vientre” & What is there to write in the latest issue of The Curly Mind (July 15, 2016). Many thanks as always to Reuben Woolley for giving my poems a wonderful home. Be sure to give a read to issue 4 of this blogzine. Lot of work I admire.
Below are the links for the poems :
(Suggested reading : Miguel Hernández)
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Many thanks to Reuben Woolley for publishing my poem Orlando : Guns & Roses in his blogzine I am not a silent poet (June 13, 2016).
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I am thrilled to have been featured in an engaging anthology called Voice of Monarch Butterflies which brings together the work of ten different displaced poets who are originally from different countries, from Ganges to Nile (Iran, Egypt, Iraq, Afghanistan, India & Bangladesh). My immense gratitude to the editor Soodabeh Saeidnia for including thirteen poems of mine in this unique collection. If you are inclined to hear the voice of migratory butterflies, here is the link to get a copy : Voice of Monarch Butterflies
Below is the list of my featured poems:
Song and the bottom of the root (p.35)
Delirium (p.36)
Point of no return (p.36)
If nothingness was the beating heart of a frog (p.36)
The pretty secret of the butterfly (p.37)
Why do I care? (p.38)
Linear (p.39)
Lahore, Sunday, March 27, 2016 (p.39)
Doors in the eyes of a refugee child (p.40)
I’m a death baby (p.40)
Hashtag : Chibok, April 14, 2014 (p.41)
Telescope and night ornaments (p.42)
Untitled (ekphrastic poem) (p.97)
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Many thanks to Reuben Woolley over at I am not a silent poet for featuring my poem Looking forward to the sunny days (June 8, 2016). It is part of a community of poems against austerity appearing in the blogzine.
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