Magadh Minoli Salgado

Magadh Minoli SalgadoWinner of the Sahitya Akademi Award Magadh, Shrikant Vermas masterpiece, was first published in Hindi in 1984 and is widely regarded as one of the most important works of modern Indian poetry. A chorus of narrators commoners, statesmen, nameless wanderers pieces together the histories of ancient cities and kingdoms on the Indian subcontinent, their rise to splendour, their decline and eventual fall. In poems that are stark and urgent yet arch and

he has also been shortlisted for the Hennessy / Sunday Tribune poetry award

Manchester in 1982

Daisy Henwood

these poems are hymns to the resilience of the human spirit

Now that their mother is dead this is the last link they have to the declining town on the north-west coast where they grew up

across the generations

Slow walks

Pliny the Elder

It is a book about beauty in ugly places

In exploring the ways in which both adults and children are casually cruel to one another - often within a mythological framework

"it’s your choice whether also to be a threat

Richard Zimler