KRG readers gathered to read poetry on June 13, 2014
Thirteen of us met on
an occasion when two new members were trying us out, while (sadly) our youngest
member, Esther, was on her way out with a new position in Chennai. It was much
later than usual when we finished, testament to our fervent discussions and the
number who were in attendance.
Sujatha Warrier, Sreelatha Chakravarty, KumKum, Talitha
Two poets from
Russia, four from India, and one each from Pakistan, Greece, and Iraq, stood apart
from the usual bag of British and American poets, five in number. Most unusually,
we had a ghazal chanted by a new reader, Pamela.
Talitha, Gopa, Ankush, Thomo
Poets without rhyme,
or reason, or metre, combined with those who performed exquisitely within those constraints. While all poets are contemporary in their time, very few remain ‘contemporary’
hundreds of years later.
Preeti, Pamela, Zakia, Sujatha, Sreelatha
Here is a picture of the group, a bit exhausted after the ardent session.
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Preeti, Esther, Priya, Talitha, KumKum, Gopa, Pamela, Sreelatha, Ankush, Joe (Zakia, Sujatha, & Thomo left early)
For a full account of
the poems we read and the discussions they provoked, click below.
