[Reader-list] reader-list Digest, Poetry Reading in Mumbai

[Daisy Hasan]

Dear All,
   
  This is on behalf of my sis. Friends in Mumbai please try and make it!
   
  Love - daisy.
   
  THE PEN ALL-INDIA CENTRE

invites you, with your friends, to

A Poetry Reading by ANJUM HASAN

from her first collection, *Street on the Hill* (2006)

Date: 11 September 2006 (Monday) 
Time: 6.15 pm
Place: Theosophy Hall, 3rd floor (40 New Marine Lines, Churchgate,
Bombay 400 020)

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ALL ARE WELCOME

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ANJUM HASAN'S poetry has appeared, over the last ten years, in various journals in India and abroad. Her poems have also appeared in two recent Penguin anthologies of Indian poetry and are next due to appear in The Norton Anthology of Contemporary Voices from the East. She also writes criticism and fiction. Her first novel – The Lunatic is in my Head – will be published by Zubaan-Penguin next year. 

Ms Hasan grew up in Shillong and took a Masters in philosophy from the North-eastern Hill University, Shillong. She has lived in Bangalore for the last eight years where she works at the India Foundation for the Arts. 

*Street on the Hill*, published by the Sahitya Akademi, is Ms Hasan's first book of poems. It is a closely observed and highly textured narrative about middle-class lives in a small town. Its early poems explore a childhood that is both starkly revealed and yet persistently enigmatic. The book then goes on to describe the characters who people the protagonist's world -- small-time shop-owners, 'men who run sweetshops in faded dark ties', nuns who teach in convent schools, pregnant women, knife-grinders, serene matriarchs, fugitives. The later poems are about flight and the significance of the 'museum of the past'. Inverting the rootedness depicted earlier in the book, these poems celebrate travel, love and the life of the  senses. 



Ranjit Hoskote
Hon. Secretary-Treasurer
The PEN All-India Centre

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