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  Madras On My Mind

  Chitra Viraraghavan, Krishna...

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  Once upon a time by the sea, there was a story – and another and another – and some wandered into these pages to make up a city. So meet, among others, a travel guide who falls for a French tourist, a rice merchant with Kollywood dreams, a god whose editor proves elusive, a portly musical lawyer caught in a noir plot, and a man in search of family in the Great Madras Flood. Find yourself, among other places, in Town, at that gastronomic oxymoron, the Udipi cafe, in Velachery, looking for pot or maybe for love, on Kaanum Pongal day all across Madras, even in a fast car on East Coast Road, fleeing the city – till it lures you back with its lovely lies. It's all here: the salt in the breeze, the eternal summer, the swing of the sea. It's Madras on your mind.

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  The Poetry of Claude McKay - A...

  Claude McKay

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  Festus Claudius McKay was born in Sunny Ville, Jamaica on the 15th September 1890, He was the youngest son to parents who had gathered enough assets to secure them the right to vote. 
   
  As a boy he was fascinated by English Poetry and literature, although at 17 he took on work as an apprentice woodcutter for two years before becoming a police constable in the capital, Kingston.  In this mainly white and affluent town racism was rife and its nature awakened his political instincts and pursuit of social justice.  He soon returned home and published his first two poetry collections in 1912. 
   
  By the early 1920’s he had travelled extensively across the United States and parts of Europe and was recognised as a very talented poet and an essential founding component of the Harlem Renaissance.   
   
  As well as poetry he also wrote several novels and was a dedicated activist for social reform.  
   
  By the late 1930s he had developed a deep interest in Catholicism and several years later moved to Chicago as a teacher for a Catholic organisation. 
   
  By the mid 1940’s several illnesses has further debilitated his health. 
   
  Claude McKay died of heart failure on the 22nd May 1948.  He was 57.

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  Devil May Care

  Michael Rosen

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  Michael Rose observes the world with a passionate and playful eye, bringing the everyday to life. Whether drawing on his family history, his personal love story, the Scottish coastline, or the vocabulary of modern food criticism, what underpins his sharp observations is affection. Both social commentary and documentary, his poems address the heart and mind.

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  What Noise Against the Cane

  Desiree C. Bailey

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  The 115th volume of the Yale Series of Younger Poets, What Noise Against the Cane is a lyric quest for belonging and freedom, weaving political resistance, Caribbean folklore, immigration, and the realities of Black life in America. Desiree C. Bailey begins by reworking the epic in an oceanic narrative of bondage and liberation in the midst of the Haitian Revolution. The poems move into the contemporary Black diaspora, probing the mythologies of home, belief, nation, and womanhood. Series judge Carl Phillips observes that Bailey’s “poems argue for hope and faith equally… These are powerful poems, indeed, and they make a persuasive argument for the transformative powers of steady defiance.”

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  Reflections

  Mallory Rowse

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  Lift yourself into a new realm of lateral make-believe world. 
  Indulge in artistic poetry that will lift you. 
  Become disassociated from the matter of fact daily life that confronts us all today. 
  Creativity is the mark of poetry as it sings our senses in appreciation and realises another perspective to what surrounds us. Another poem, another realm of understanding. 
  An ideal book to have at your side, whether at home, relaxing on the beach, or on holiday lazing in any of the seasons of the year! Awake to an alternative mode of leisure of novel reading. Absorb and drift away with wordsmith that beckons you into a floating paradise of your very own. 
  Poetry affords one to a taste of strength of suggestion that whets the palate very differently to the manner in which a fictional or non-fictional novel cannot achieve. Enjoy your journey through this book as your reading material companion. 
  Which one will you choose as your favourite?

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  Poets & Their Inner Demons –...

  John Keats, Percy Bysshe...

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  The stereotypical image of a poet is one of unknown talent starving in a garret and who’s faithfulness and legacy to the art is discovered only after their death. 
  In some cases this is undoubtedly true, but Poets being human and with the same building blocks of physical and mental health as the rest of us, also had the same afflictions and problems as the rest of us.   
  The long roll call of names and the truncated legacies that were left behind is filled with these lost talents. 
  In this volume we bring together those writers of verse and poetry who sadly died so young that their works may be small in number but glint with such brave, revealing and inventive verse that one can only imagine what heights poetry with their full lives could have been taken to.

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