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                      FRAGMENTED BY UMASHANKAR JOSHI AUTHOR INTRODUCTION NAME                          Umashankar Jethalal Joshi BORN                        21 July 1911 NATIONALITY         India    OCCUPATION           Poet WORKS                    Gangotri , Abhigna, Haveli. DIED.                        19 December 1988. TEXT OF THE POEM I am fragmented - fallen apart - Like rhythm striving to throb in a poem without metre Like a pattern trying to emerge upon a man's life canvas Like bread crumbs in several homes, not yet placed in a beggar's bowl. Who spoke? The cuckoo? This babbling of the nightingales in groves, Nature's cultura...

  IMITAZ DHARKER- LIVING SPACE AUTHOR INTRODUCTION NAME                   :   Imitaz Dharker BORN                    :  1954, Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan NATIONALITY    :  British OCCUPATION      :  Poet, Artist WORKS                 :       BOOKS OF POETRY Purdah(1989) Postcards from God(1997) I speak for the Devil(2001) The Terrorist at my table(2006) Leaving fingerprint(2009) Over the moon(2014) Luck in hook(2018) LIVING SPACE There are just not enough straight lines. That is the problem. Nothing is flat or parallel. Beams balance crookedly on supports thrust off the vertical. Nails clutch at open seams. The whole structure leans dangerously towards the miraculous. Into this rough frame, someone has squeezed a living space and even dared to place these eggs in a wire basket, ...

  SUJATA BHATT – THE PEACOCK AUTHOR INTRODUCTION NAME                         Sujata Bhatt BORN                        May 6, 1956 NATIONALITY        Indian OCCUPATION          Poet  WORKS                     The colour of Solitude                                   Pure Lizard THE PEACOCK His loud sharp call seems to come from nowhere. Then, a flash of turquoise in the pipal tree The slender neck arched away from you as he descends, and as he darts away, a glimpse of the very end of his tail. I was told that you have to sit in the veranda And read a book, preferably one of your favourites with great concentration.. The moment you begin to live inside the book A b...

  GWENDOLYN BROOKS – TO THE DIASPORA AUTHOR INTRODUCTION NAME                        Gwendolyn Brooks BORN                        7 June 1917 NATIONALITY       American OCCUPATION         Poet WORKS                    A Street in Bronzeville,                                   In the Mecca . DIED.                        3 December 2000 TO THE DIASPORA you did not know you were Afrika When you set out for Afrika you did not know you were going. Because you did not know you were Afrika. You did not know the Black continent that had to be reached was you. I could not have told you then that some sun would come, somewhere over t...

  MICHAEL ONTAADJE'S TO A SAD DAUGHTER AUTHOR INTRODUCTION NAME                        :  Michael Ontaadje BORN                       :  12.09.1943 NATIONALITY        : Canadian-Srilankan OCCUPATION          : Author, Poet WORKS                     : The English patient,                                       Running in the family  TEXT OF THE POEM: To A Sad Daughter All night long the hockey pictures gaze down at you sleeping in your tracksuit. Belligerent goalies are your ideal. Threats of being traded cuts and wounds - all this pleases you. 0 my god! you say at breakfast reading the sports page over the Alpen as another player breaks his ankle or...

  THE YAFFLING TREE - PHILIP HUGH BOWEN AUTHOR INTRODUCTION NAME                   :     Philip hugh Bowen BORN                   :   1949, Liverpool, England NATIONALITY   :   British OCCUPATION     :   Poet, Playwright, Performer, Teacher, Biographer WORKS                :           POETRY  That was peter glaze(1993) The Professor's Boots(1994) Jewels & binoculars(1994) Things we said Today(1995) Variety's Hammer(1997) Starfly(2004) Nowhere's far, new and selected poems(1990-2009)       PROSE  A gallery to play to-the story of the Mersey poets(1998)       PLAYS  A handful of Rain(1999-2002)  The same Boat(2003-2004)  The other side of the words(2004)  Chimney kids(2004)  Anything But love(20...