Ruskin Bond's Book of Verse

by Ruskin Bond

Ruskin Bond's Book of Verse

Genres: Poetry

152 pages, Paperback

First published May 1, 2007

About the author

Ruskin Bond is an Indian author of British descent. He is considered to be an icon among Indian writers and children's authors and a top novelist. He wrote his first novel, The Room on the Roof, when he was seventeen which won John Llewellyn Rhys Memorial Prize in 1957. Since then he has written several novellas, over 500 short stories, as well as various essays and poems, all of which have established him as one of the best-loved and most admired chroniclers of contemporary India. In 1992 he received the Sahitya Akademi award for English writing, for his short stories collection, "Our Trees Still Grow in Dehra", by the Sahitya Akademi, India's National Academy of Letters in India. He was awarded the Padma Shri in 1999 for contributions to children's literature. He now lives with his adopted family in Landour near Mussoorie.

Reviews

[Asha Seth]

Read it, oh, please, read it! You must. I beg of you.

You deserve to feel the simple yet stirring currents of Ruskin's poetry.

The sweetest anthology of poems centred around childhood, love, nature and humour. Ruskin has a way with words that entice readers' mind and heart, all at once. That man!

[Koushiki Chowdhury]

I have a beautiful relationship with Ruskin Bond's work beacause probably he was the first author I ever read. Having read almost everything he has ever written, I was surprised.
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And yes the "Almost" is important here because I had never heard or seen this book before I found it one day while casually searching @book.chor !
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It's a Book of poems, Haikus and small pieces of writting that he wrote over long periods of time without ever giving much emphasis. He casually used to include them between his stories and novels, hoping that the publisher won't notice and now (in 2007) @penguinindia reached out to him to compile all the scattered works and made them into this beautiful collection.
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I enjoyed the book. It was good as a break from heavy reading. But probably you will enjoy it only if you are a DIE-HARD fan of Ruskin Bond. As there are certain poems which, one can only understand if they have read the book or story where it was included!

[Vrinda]

Some of the most simple, yet soulful poetry I've ever read..

[Abhidev H M]

Ruskin Bond may not be a great poet. I like him as a poet as well. As he said these are verse and I love these verse.

[Sarabjeet Singh]

This author never stops to amaze me.
If option was available, I'd have given 6/5.

[Mohit Rathore]

📍 This is the first poetry book I have read by Ruskin Bond.

📍 Some of the verses are really good in this book.

📍 These verses are written in a very simple language that you'll not have any difficulty to understand them.

📍 I found many good poems there, not every poem/verse is great in the book.

📍 Beginners can definitely start reading poetry with this one.

[Sandeep]

Lovely book to read on a weekend... I wish to read it sometime again!

Cheers,

[Aanchal]

4.5*

[Rayees Shaikh]

Mr. Bond just pulls you inside each of his stories.

[Sudha Saswati Nayak]

Simple and Sweet.

[tanisha]

gentle and loving

[Swagatam Deva Nath]

Poems for all seasons, all moods. Such a wonderful collection. Simple yet deep are the poems. How simply Ruskin Bond plays with words is a treat to savour. It takes us closer to nature and mountains.

[Ayati]

This book is a beautiful collection of poems. It starts off with a lovely introduction. For the ease of readers, the poems are beautifully classified into diverse categories, like Love, Nature, Humour, Travel, etc. It has 80 poems and 12 haikus, all of which are beautifully written. This book will be a lasting source of delight. I don't read much of poetry, and maybe that's the reason I'm finding it difficult to review this book. I'll just leave a few poems and haikus below...

‘Do you believe in ghosts?’
Asked the passenger
On platform number three
‘I'm a rational man’, said I,
‘I believe in what I can see—
Your hands, your feet, your beard!’
‘Then look again’, said he,
And promptly disappeared!

There was an old man at Landour
Who wanted young folk to laugh more;
So he wrote them a book,
And with laughter they shook
As they rolled down the hill to Rajpore.

One fine day my kite took wing,
Then came a strong wind—
I was left with the string!

Jasmine flowers in her hair,
Languid summer days are here,
And sweet longing scents the air.

Recommended to poetry lovers and Ruskin Bond fans!

[Shalini]

Poems for all seasons and reasons - A very good collection of poems fondly written by the nature lover Ruskin Bond!

[Vinay Leo - vinayleoreads]

Ruskin Bond’s poetry is refreshing. It brings out what it wants to, and doesn’t pretend to have depth. It is simple, yet very soulful. It inspires, and provokes thought, and in its words, makes me escape from the tiredness of life, and from the feeling of being trapped without being able to write.

What I liked in this collection of verse is the simplicity in presentation, which leaves the reader still mesmerized after the read. The cover page design is also appealing, as is the verse on the back cover. The poems inspire verse and to a poet, can be very valuable.

My review: http://wp.me/p2J8yh-2kB

[Ishani]

This book is the kind of book you keep revisiting in search of hidden meaning you could have missed earlier. It contains jewels within it like 'Pebbles' and 'If Mice Could Roar' which are so simple yet hold a deep meaning. Its the perfect book to read out loud and Ruskin's words are almost delicious as they bounce off your tongue. You could finish the whole book in a big gulp or savour it like expensive liquor, either ways it would leave you with a tingling feeling, the sort you cannot classify as being happy or sad, just something in between.

[Gvan]

Really good book.

[Divenita Er]

Its a fantastic escape from the hullabulloo of the world!