CHEMOULD PRESCOTT ROAD & THE PEN ALL-INDIA CENTRE

invite you to

‘THE MUSIC OF WHAT HAPPENS’

A READING OF POETRY

by

ADIL JUSSAWALLA
GIEVE PATEL
ARUNDHATHI SUBRAMANIAM
& RANJIT HOSKOTE

Date: 28 September 2007 (Friday)
Time: 6.00 pm
Place: Chemould Prescott Road, Queens’ Mansion (3rd floor), G Talwatkar Marg, Fort, Mumbai 400 001

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This reading, which brings together four of Mumbai’s leading poets, celebrates the possibility of dialogue between the poetic image and the visual image. Its context is Chemould’s ongoing exhibition of works on canvas and paper by the distinguished abstractionist, MEHLLI GOBHAI.

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ADIL JUSSAWALLA is a poet, critic, editor and literary organizer. He is the author of two books of poetry, Land’s End (Writers Workshop, 1962) and Missing Person (Clearing House, 1976). He edited the benchmark anthology New Writing in India (Penguin, 1974), co-edited an anthology of Indian prose in English, Statements (Orient Longman, 1977) with Eunice de Souza, and acted as literary editor to several publications, including Debonair and The Times of India . He founded the literary reading circle, Loquations. See: india.poetryinternationalweb.org/piw_cms/cms/cms_module/index.php?obj_id=2714

GIEVE PATEL is a poet, painter and playwright. He is the author of three collections of poems: Poems (Nissim Ezekiel, 1966), How Do You Withstand, Body (Clearing House, 1976) and Mirrored, Mirroring (Oxford University Press, 1991), as well as of three plays, Princes, Savaksa and Mr Behram. He has been working on a translation of the Gujarati saint-poet Akho; most recently, he edited the anthology, Poetry with Young People (Sahitya Akademi, 2007), based on his annual workshops at the Rishi Valley School. He has held numerous exhibitions of his paintings in India and overseas. See: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gieve_Patel

ARUNDHATHI SUBRAMANIAM is a poet, anthologist and cultural journalist. She is the author of two volumes of poetry, On Cleaning Bookshelves (Allied, 2001) and Where I Live (Allied, 2005). She has also co-edited an anthology of poems, Confronting Love (Penguin, 2001), with Jerry Pinto; and written The Book of Buddha (Penguin, 2006). She is India Editor for Poetry International Web, committee member of the Poetry Circle Bombay, as well as creative consultant at the National Centre for the Performing Arts, Bombay . See: http://www.culturebase.net/artist.php?3820

RANJIT HOSKOTE is a poet, cultural theorist and independent curator. He is the author of four books of poetry, Zones of Assault (Rupa & Co., 1991), The Cartographer’s Apprentice (Pundole, 2000), The Sleepwalker’s Archive (Single File, 2001) and Vanishing Acts: New & Selected Poems 1985-2005 (Penguin, 2006). He has also published five studies of art, a translation, an anthology, Reasons for Belonging (Viking, 2002), and has co-authored, with Ilija Trojanow, a history of the West/non-West encounter, Kampfabsage (Random House/ Blessing Verlag, 2007). See: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ranjit_Hoskote