When God Is a Traveller - Couverture souple

Subramaniam, Arundhathi

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1780371160 ISBN 13 : 9781780371160

Editeur : Bloodaxe Books Ltd, 2014

Synopsis

Shortlisted for the 2014 T.S. Eliot Prize

Poetry Book Society Choice

These are poems of wonder and precarious elation, about learning to embrace the seemingly disparate landscapes of hermitage and court, the seemingly diverse addresses of mystery and clarity, disruption and stillness - all the roadblocks and rewards on the long dangerous route to recovering what it is to be alive and human.

Wandering, digging, falling, coming to terms with unsettlement and uncertainty, finiteness and fallibility, exploring intersections between the sacred and the sensual, searching for ways to step in and out of stories, cycles and frames - these are some of the recurrent themes.

These poems explore various ambivalences - around human intimacy with its bottlenecks and surprises, life in a Third World megapolis, myth, the politics of culture and gender, and the persistent trope of the existential journey.

Arundhathi Subramaniam's previous book from Bloodaxe, Where I Live: Selected Poems (2009), drew on her first two books published in India plus a whole new collection. When God Is a Traveller is her fourth collection of poetry.

‘A sense of wonder and striking contrasts pervade the Indian poet’s fourth collection. The sacred meets the everyday, cerebral wordplay delivers full-blooded emotion, and ancient Hindu myths run alongside contemporary urban life. Breathtaking in scope, taking in religious faith, friendships, love affairs and existential themes. Often the work questions poetry itself – but it is always rooted in the physical and the tangible, with fresh visual imagery that really packs a punch. Bold and thought-provoking.’ – Juanita Coulson, The Lady (Christmas Books 2015)

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Arundhathi Subramaniam is an award-winning poet and writer on spirituality and culture. She has published three books of poetry in the UK with Bloodaxe: Where I Live: New & Selected Poems (2009), which combines selections from her first two Indian collections, On Cleaning Bookshelves and Where I Live, with new work; When God Is a Traveller (2014), which was shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize, and won the Sahitya Akademi Award for Poetry (awarded by India’s national academy of letters), the inaugural Khushwant Singh Memorial Prize at the Jaipur Literary Festival, and the International Piero Bigongiari Prize in Italy; and Love Without a Story (2020). Her fourth book from Bloodaxe, The Gallery of Upside Down Women, is published in 2025.

Her recent work includes Women Who Wear Only Themselves: Four Travelers on Their Sacred Journeys (Harper Collins, US, 2025) and Wild Women: Seekers, Protagonists and Goddesses in Sacred Indian Poetry (Penguin Books India, 2024). Previous books include The Book of Buddha (Penguin, 2005), and the biography, Sadhguru: More Than a Life (Penguin, 2010), as well as Eating God: A Book of Bhakti Poetry (Penguin, 2014).

In 2006 she appeared at London’s Poetry International festival and gave readings throughout Britain on a tour organised by the Poetry Society. She also took part in the T.S. Eliot Prize reading at London’s Southbank Centre in 2015.

She mostly lives in Mumbai, Chennai and New York.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Bloodaxe Books Ltd
• Date d'édition: 2014
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1780371160
• ISBN 13: 9781780371160
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 72
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible