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Foreword Followers of contemporary poetry who’ve heard Sonnet Mondal reading his poems at international festivals will know something of the distinctiveness of his voice and the philosophising delicacy of his work. In Karmic Chanting he has assembled many of his most beautiful recent poems. His is a poetry of light and shadow, of shimmering childhood and reflective adulthood: ‘My mind is heavier than my soul,’ he writes, and ‘I wish I had left myself / to the charity of wilderness.’ Here we find something of the tension between inner and outer worlds—and the way one betrays the other—as well as the remembered pain of such perceptions. Here is the poet ‘as a meditating owl / h...
Sonnet Mondal's An Afternoon in My Mind is a young man's meditation on time, filled with the recognition that it is too late to return to childhood. It is both personal and political; concerned with questions of the spirit and of matter. The plain-spoken tone of these poems is a cover for their deeper metaphysical inquiries. Narrative saturates every observation: "A man stands holding his bicycle / in the bus stop shed," Mondal writes in "On a Snowy Morning." "When he rides away the story will follow him." And though the poems investigate loss, yearning, and solitude, they do not forgo humor, as in the wry, wary "Another Reason to Live": "Someone advised me to watch / monochromatic films and let whiskey / slip across a placid tongue to come out of this swamp." Mondal seems to have eschewed this advice: his tongue is not placid; it speaks with an impassioned clarity full of energetic surprise: "I went inside a forest to sip some solitude / and now I am stuck in a wildfire." - Catherine Barnett
In his latest book of poetry “Diorama Of Three Diaries” Sonnet explores his creativity to the heights and depths of his mortal and spiritual being and allows us to be a part of it. He takes us on a picturesque journey through secret gardens and landscapes visible only to the discerning eye. It is a trip well worth taking. You will be richer for the excursion into the mystical dream he lives in. Every poem in the book has depth and will find a home in hearts that beat in unison with the universe, the earth, humanity and spirit. In the poem “A Call Through Misty Eyes”, these words scrape our souls with the blade of a feather “His misty vision mistook me as someone familiar and I was no more a tramp.” He paints the inner reaches of soulful sentiment and empathy onto the living canvas of life. His stream of consciousness flows like stardust and starlight on iridescent rivers of imagination that spill freely from his mind, through his pen onto the paper and splash against the face of our heart. Candice James Poet Laureate, New Westminster, BC CANADA.
An exceptional collection of poems from our members. All of them were posted on our Facebook wall, many of them moved on and found their way into our hearts as well. Lucky the reader choosing to delve into this collection of literate beauty.
This review is no slender paperback; Big River Poetry Review Volume 1 is a blockbuster 9 x 12 coffee table book with 185 pages of poems. "A magnificent read," says Joan Colby. THIS IS AS GOOD AS IT GETS. Including poems by Pam Uschuk, Phillip Fried, Joan Colby, William Doreski, Sheila E. Murphy, Peycho Kanev, Sybill Pittman Estess, Larry Thomas, Robert Lietz, Martin Willitts, Jr., and many other outstanding poets, this is the first print issue of Big River Poetry Review, an on-line and print journal of fine original contemporary poetry compiled, edited, and published in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, see bigriverpoetry.com. In this issue, we are printing all the poems we published on-line between the Review's inception in late May 2012 and the end of December 2012.
Brought to you by Blinking Cursor Literary Magazine, The Blinking Anthology showcases poetry and fiction from writers worldwide.
The second annual Carcinogenic Poetry print anthology, featuring over 90 indie writers from around the world.
Freedom Raga 2020 is a collection of 74 poems commemorating India's 74th Independence Day. This book is truly 'the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings' of veterans and newer voices alike – all distinct, all very passionate. This anthology is embellished with great minds of the time such as Nabaneeta Dev Sen (translated by Nandana Sen), Keki Daruwala, Bashabi Frazer, Ashoke Viswanathan, and Hoshang Merchant as well as Professors from Jawaharlal Nehru University, University of Calcutta, Indian Institute Management, and several institutions from all over the country alongside new fresh voices.