While I Write: New And Selected Poems

by K. Satchidanandan

This collection showcases the new and landmark poems of one of India's most prolific litterateurs. K. Satchidanandan's oeuvre is marked by a keen awareness of his roots and an endearing intimacy with nature, for he grew up talking to cats and crows and trees, gods and spirits; the wind, rain and soil are his limbs, voice and soul. And yet, from this sensibility arise too poems which are global in their concerns and hide in their wake the many-layered realities of the ever-changing world around us.

Genres: Poetry

154 pages, Paperback

Published March 2, 2011

About the author

K. Sachidanandan (Malayalam: കെ സച്ചിദാനന്ദൻ) is a Indian poet and critic writing in Malayalam and English. A pioneer of modern poetry in Malayalam, a bilingual critic , playwright, editor, literary columnist and translator, he is the former Editor of Indian Literature journal and the former Secretary of Sahitya Akademi.He is also a public intellectual of repute upholding secular democratic views, supporting causes like environment, human rights and free software and a well known speaker on issues concerning contemporary Indian literature.

Reviews

[Kiran Bhat · Rating 4 out of 5]

Satchidanandan writes beautiful poems. His words are full of wonder and inquiry. Often he starts the poem on a particular note and subverts his thoughts, or ends it on an interesting place. There is also a lot of compassion and tenderness in the subject matter. Satchidanandan cares a lot about the space of women, the problems of this earth, and he finds his own way of addressing it.

Do check out this woefully underrated malayali voice.

[Suranjan · Rating 4 out of 5]

Easy yet deep - is what could be said to define Satchidanandan's poems. This collection holds some great poems. When we listen a song and feel like ' oh I can also sing this with equal brilliance ' but when we do the singing we understand our incapability, Satchidanandan's poems are of these kind. He is people's poet -
deep feelings contained inside the simple looking human body.