Words, Horizons, Journeys, Epiphanies... A reservoir of the past, a celebration of the everyday, a harbinger of things to come... Perhaps most pointedly, the pursuit of a little thing called Bliss. From the pen and persistently frayed suitcase of Poet/ Novelist Siddharth Dasgupta.
The enjoyable, LA-based
features two new poems of Siddharth’s, poems fed by “the afternoon's gauze” and that “sad, beautiful summer of Guru Dutt and Waheeda Rehman”.
Lost Coasts, In Threes
Three new poems, in the Winter Edition of the excellent Joao-Roque Literary Journal.
A poem filled with all the human longing and animal spirit of days of wildness. 'An Exploration of Human Shape and Light' appears in the pretty damn terrific Epiphany.
New poem for the revival issue of nether Quarterly
Three relatively older poems for the stark, striking pages of The Bosphorus Review
‘One Indian City, Two Indian Lovers’ and four other poems, for the global arts collective Spittoon
'Nin-ah'—The prose poem as love letter, for and after Nina Simone.
A selection of ruminations for Burning House, Australia
A love letter to Nina Simone and a song of yearning for Calcutta—out in the newly launched Gulmohar Quarterly.
Two rebel ghazals in the beautiful arts & culture journal The Aleph Review, within in its 5th Anniversary Special Edition Anthology. These are ghazals of mischief and whimsy, rarely playing to the prescribed script, while carrying the essence and romance of the ghazal within their heartbeats.
‘Bombay Sapphire, Arab Springs’
(and Other Poems). Out in the terrific, Beirut-based journal
Rusted Radishes.
Published in Coldnoon; the ‘Metropolis’ Special
The Bombay Literary Magazine carries three poems of Siddharth’s in its latest issue, poems that offer a farewell to the Aegean, a love letter to a hometown, Gauhar Jaan's wild nasha, and yup, the freed verse of old radio.
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