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All the Worlds Between
This is a collaborative poetry project bringing together poets from India, Ireland and in between. Their writing partnerships resulted in four strands-- poems as conversations, poems at angles to one another, poems which speak out of turn to other poets in the group and, not surprisingly, stories of friendship. The poets looked at questions of home, belonging, identity, exclusion and homogenisation. From conversations about shoes and what they evoke, to exchanges about parents, poems responding to the transgender experience, to inward-angled poems and even chain poems created stanza by stanza over email and WatsApp, through all of these the poets found themselves eavesdropping on a collaborative consciousness, ears to the ground listening for the beat of life.
135 pages, Paperback
Published December 1, 2017
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April 5, 2020
When I finished the jigsaw
I noticed that one piece
was missing. Little did I know
that you, in another town,
had risen to the grumble
of morning, a reluctant kettle
and, through the kitchen window,
one luminous cloud, parched
onto an otherwise unspectacular sky."
Synchronicity // Maurice Devitt
RATING: 4.5/5
Exploring the idea that art is essentially dialogic in nature happens to be the central premise of this extraordinary poetry collection. I have always been taken up with the notion of a literary conversation between writers, where their works become jumping points for new works of art which effectively speak to what came before while simultaneously laying the ground for future possibilities. It's an interaction with shared pasts and set literary traditions, beckoning the formation of new outlooks and fresh perspectives.
It's a fascinating collectivistic writing exercise. One which has a staggering potential for a divergent range of responses. It also carries with it a promise of intimacy, a pulling down of boundaries. Lines are blurred as the Irish interacts with the Indian, both irrevocably changed. Allusions and allegories change hands. Smilies and metaphors take flight as they migrate. Language is broken down and built anew, a scaffolding for new narratives. Words come together in strange ways and two distinct worlds are bridged.
I noticed that one piece
was missing. Little did I know
that you, in another town,
had risen to the grumble
of morning, a reluctant kettle
and, through the kitchen window,
one luminous cloud, parched
onto an otherwise unspectacular sky."
Synchronicity // Maurice Devitt
RATING: 4.5/5
Exploring the idea that art is essentially dialogic in nature happens to be the central premise of this extraordinary poetry collection. I have always been taken up with the notion of a literary conversation between writers, where their works become jumping points for new works of art which effectively speak to what came before while simultaneously laying the ground for future possibilities. It's an interaction with shared pasts and set literary traditions, beckoning the formation of new outlooks and fresh perspectives.
It's a fascinating collectivistic writing exercise. One which has a staggering potential for a divergent range of responses. It also carries with it a promise of intimacy, a pulling down of boundaries. Lines are blurred as the Irish interacts with the Indian, both irrevocably changed. Allusions and allegories change hands. Smilies and metaphors take flight as they migrate. Language is broken down and built anew, a scaffolding for new narratives. Words come together in strange ways and two distinct worlds are bridged.
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