The Bloomsbury Book of Great Indian Love Poems edited by Abhay K. is out now

 

The Bloomsbury Book of Great Indian Love Poems is out now and can be ordered here.  Great Indian Love Poems, selected and edited diligently by Abhay K., brings you the fragrant wine of Indian love poetry spread across three millennia, written in over two dozen languages by gifted poets like -Kalidasa, Mirabai,Bhratrihari, Jayadeva, Silhana, Surdas, Bihari, Muddupalani, Bhavabhuti, Venmaniputti, Vidyapati, Bilhana to just name a few.  This intoxicating book shows many facets of love-affectionate, playful, sensuous, erotic, unconditional, pining, aching, among others-leaving you with unforgettable experiences and lasting impressions. A must read for one and all.

Italian literary magazine Margutte publishes Abhay K.'s poems in Italian translation

Reputed Italian literary magazine Margutte publishes 5 of Abhay K.'s poems and an interview with him in Italian translation. More here

International Gallerie features two poems of Abhay K

Abhay K. reading his poems at the 27th International Poetry Festival in Medellin, Colombia

Abhay K. reading his poems at the 27th International Poetry Festival in Medellin, Colombia  (8-16 July 2017) Photo by Marissa Polnerow.

Two Poems by Abhay K in Madras Courier

Two Poems by Abhay K. in Madras Courier

Barbarians Are Finally Here: A Poem by Abhay K in English and Spanish

Barbarians Are Finally Here: A poem inspired by C.P. ‪Cavafy‬´s Waiting for the ‪‎Barbarians‬ read by Abhay K in English and Alicia Silvestre Miralles in Spanish. You can listen here.

Mud Season Review carries poems of Abhay K on four leading personalities of Nepal

"Abhay K’s portraits of famous figures from Nepal contrast a modern poetic form with heroes—spiritual, poetic, and military—from the past. In Sanskrit, Siddhartha means “he who has achieved his goals/found the meaning of existence,”and as we read the summation of these lives, the personalities not speaking as much as being spoken for, the underlying question is: did they achieve their goals, did they find meaning in their lives?"- Rebecca Starks, Editor, Mud Season Review http://mudseasonreview.com/author/abhay-k/

The Stony Thursday Ireland carries Dasain- a poem by Abhay K

The Byword carries eight short poems of Abhay K in its inaugural issue

Abhay K after reading Monsoon Verses in Kathmandu

Abhay K after reading his poems in Kathmandu, Nepal in July 2015 

Indian diplomat contributes to Nepal tourism through poems- Business Standard

Şiirden publishes Death of Grandpa by Abhay K

Nepali Times on Abhay K's 69 poems on Nepal's culture, heritage, places

Reviews of JATRA- Poems on Nepal in Republica, Nagrik, Nepal Weekly, Himal Weekly, Gorkhapatra, The Rising Nepal

Poems on Nepal

Poems on Nepal by Abhay K

Republica on The Seduction of Delhi

Review of The Seduction of Delhi in The Rising Nepal

Review of The Seduction of Delhi in The Rising Nepal 

Abhay K reading his poems at an event by Nepal Kala Sahitya Pratishthan

T. S. Eliot Prize winner poet George Szirtes on Abhay K's 'Seduction of Delhi'

 T. S. Eliot Prize winner poet George Szirtes on Abhay K's 'The Seduction of Delhi'

'One may visit a city and one may live in it. To experience it as a presence and a history is more than either, and to experience it as poetry is sublime. Italo Calvino’s Invisible Cities shows us Venice in many fantastical transformations. Abhay K. Kumar’s Seduction of Delhi is not so much a city transformed as tenderly opened up and invited to commune with the world around it in both time and place. So, in the Places section of the book, the poem on Nehru Park presents us with a ‘blue moon in full bloom / birds transmuting into humans’ on a spot where ‘Nehru is in dialogue with Lenin / and the universe’ while among the Portraits we meet the ubiquitous auto rickshaws, each ‘a triangle-on wheels’ that criss-crosses Delhi like ‘a kite soaring against the wind’ that carries the city on its wings.

The transformations are gentle and humane: the history is deep and lightly worn. This is a beautiful way to be introduced to a great city as both specific and essence.'

-George Szirtes