Beschreibung
Produktdetails
Einband
Taschenbuch
Erscheinungsdatum
05.10.2017
Verlag
Skylark Publications UKSeitenzahl
78
Maße (L/B/H)
21,6/14/0,5 cm
Gewicht
111 g
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN
978-0-9560840-5-7
The book will be introduced at the National Poetry Library, Southbank Centre with the help from the British Council and the Poetry Library. All profit from this book will be channelled to the whale preservation and literary charities. Through these poems, the poet wants readers to enjoy a meaningful whale experience transcending to a new level of comprehension. The separate sections referring to sea, land and sky allow the poet to negotiate whale’s global space with unique perspectives to create the breathtaking opus of whales as never before. These are the whales connected to us in every aspect of our cultural and general ambience. Utterly revealing, rejoicing and questioning our very existence as their own without any physical boundaries. Swim with these whales if you dare! Whales can allow us to juxtapose their world with ours through poetic eyes, allowing an inventive experience that can manifest into human sentiments too. This idea creates a fresh universe with a whale at its centre, be it as a migrant, a lost child or a mother watching the child being harpooned. Whales swim to take us through a yogic journey and mocking of academics and politicians. The whale’s world here offers us a chance to confront religions, the inhumanity of wars and the challenges we face in normal life. It also plays with a guilt a mankind feels for hunting it to extinction and then building whale temples. In the process, it mocks, laughs, cries, plays, wishes, falls, jumps to stars and swims in the oneness waters which we have divided and named as territories. Ignoring all preconceptions, readers here can simply enjoy these poems as a carefree beast’s wild and magnificent play trying to connect to their own and our environments and cultural behaviours. The collection offers an entirely original steal of a distinct imagination about these magnificent creatures, but with the realism as its fertile playfield. Chariots of Fire The wave had an upper hand The sea was at its command A race to the finish, a wager Whale too won’t cower And so it began ---- You can be a storm, hurricane A vortex or anarchy Only the one who swims deep Knows the secrets of a true conquest ******* Poet-publisher-activist Yogesh Patel's latest collection Swimming with Whales is an awesome tour de force that has as its recurring metaphor the largest animal on the planet. The images are arresting and the language lingers in the memory. This panoramic opus assures Patel a permanent place in the front rank of Asian origin poets in the West. You don't become the ocean, you'll be seasick every day, was discovered by Leonard Cohen and Patel has adopted that as his mantra. His references are wide and he uses them to good effect. And he has certainly been swimming with the great and the good. He says that his poems are a journey and not a destination. Very true. Nowhere as in poetry is it better to travel than to arrive. - Reginald Massey
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