rhapsody in blue

September 7, 2024 debasis2 Comments

Pleased to bits to have a poem published today in International Times, operated out of the UK since the Sixties. My sincere thanks to the editors of IT for including “rhapsody in blue”.

This poem is an outcome of my first encounter with Gershwin’s work ( big thanks to Arpita) and my repeated travels to Kafka’s Trial.
Thanks to kid’s insistence I could complete (!) this piece in “Cafe des artistes” during my last visit to the confluence of St Lawrence.
Lastly, I dedicate this poem to John Hutnyk, author of many books and presently professor at Ton Duc Thang University in Vietnam.
Cheers!

rhapsody in blue

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K

August 4, 2017 debasis10 Comments

Glad to have three of my poems (“threaded back”, “oblivious” & “India journal”) featured in the latest issue (July 2017) of The Wagon Magazine. Many thanks to editors Krishna Prasad & Dibyajyoti Sarma.

Note: K, Kushal Poddar, the amazing poet from Kolkata, may have played a part in the piece “India journal” (that was my intended title). And “oblivious” has its roots in Kafka.

Click here to read : threaded back, oblivious, India journal

Thanks everyone!

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play & theory…

May 18, 2016May 24, 2016 debasis2 Comments

Very happy to have had two poems, Play and theory of the drunken boat & Of death out of the gallery, included in the second issue of Manneqüin.Haüs, a journal of literary art fascinated by surreal (May 17, 2016). Big thanks to editor Zachary Scott Hamilton for giving my poems a warm home.

Click here to read the poems : Play and theory of the drunken boat, Of death out of the gallery

Thank you!

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Of death : chiaroscuro

September 30, 2015May 24, 2016 debasisLeave a comment

Two poems published in Fragments of Chiaroscuro (volume 1, issue 1) (September 30, 2015):

A page turn (p. viii) — after Kafka’s The Trial
Brother death, a poem for you (p. xx)

I dedicate the later one to Tanmoy Chakraborty aka Puchu

Read them on ISSU:

http://fragmentsofchiaroscuro.weebly.com/issues.html

Thank you.

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Five more poems

September 26, 2015May 24, 2016 debasis2 Comments

Five poems published in Of/With : Journal of immanent renditions (September 26, 2015). The journal’s 3rd issue is presented in the magazine-like reader ISSU. My special thanks to Felino A. Soriano, the editor.

Here is the link to the journal: http://www.of-with.com/issue-3.html

The published poems are:

If nothingness was the beating heart of a frog (p.156)
Hallelujah! (p.157)
For Cynthia in the lower vase (pp.158-159)
…no nothing (pp.160-161)
The maze where the poppies grow most densely (p.162)

Thank you.

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Kafka on my mind : The Metamorphosis

September 6, 2015May 25, 2016 debasisLeave a comment

Poem with a sun-filled tram published in Silver Birch Press celebrating the 100th anniversary of The Metamorphosis (My Meta-morphosis Series) (September 6, 2015).

Click here to read the poem: Poem with a sun-filled tram

Thank you.