100 More Great Indian Poems

by Abhay K.

100 More Great Indian Poems serves as a perfect companion volume to 100 Great Indian Poems. Together they open a new window to the world of Indian poetry and delight our senses invoking a distinct taste, smell, colour and mood of this ancient and unique civilization.

Genres: Poetry

159 pages, Kindle Edition

Published March 10, 2019

About the author

Abhay K. is a poet, editor and translator. His recent translated book includes Fool Bahadur (Penguin Random House). He is the author of several collections of poems including Celestial (Mapin), Stray Poems (Poetrywala), Monsoon (Sahitya Akademi, India), The Magic of Madagascar (L'Harmattan, Paris), The Alphabets of Latin America ( Bloomsbury India), The Prophecy of Brasilia (Colletivo Editorial, Brazil),The Eight-Eyed Lord of Kathmandu (Bloomsbury) and The Seduction Of Delhi (Bloomsbury). He is also the editor of The Book of Bihari Literature (HarperCollins India), The Bloomsbury Book of Great Indian Love Poems, The Bloomsbury Anthology of Great Indian Poems covering poems from 28 Indian languages and over 3000 years of Indian poetry, and CAPITALS--a poetry anthology on the capital cities of the world. He is translator and editor of New Brazilian Poems (Ibis Libris, Rio). His poems have appeared in over 100 literary journals and magazines, including: Poetry Salzburg Review, Asia Literary Review among others. His poems have been translated into over a dozen languages. Abhay K’s poem-song, ‘Earth Anthem’, has been translated into over 150 languages. He received the SAARC Literary Award in 2013. He was invited to record his poems at the Library of Congress, Washington, DC in 2018. His translation of Kalidasa's Meghduta and Ritusamhara, both published by Bloomsbury India, received KLF Poetry Book of the Year Award

Reviews

[Urvashi Yadav · Rating 4 out of 5]

I loved how thia included even the translations of poems not particularly written in English.
The various types of poems, short and long, with or without a rhyme scheme, some visibly simple, some not.
Selecting a 100 only from a vast collection was admirable.