Our readers look forward to the last session of the year because it is tinged with levity, and uplifted by the effervescence of the holiday season to come. We deliberately choose poems that evoke absurdity and a sense of childhood fun.
The occasion was combined with the birthday celebration of Arundhaty, and she kindly invited us to be guests in her home for the event and recite by the Chillavanoor river bank. As before we were expected to attend in droll costumes and wear incongruity as a badge. Spurred on by reminders, the readers turned out in great splashes of colour, the men rivalling the women. The photos will attest to their uninhibited display.
The poets included famous names like T. S. Eliot and Edward Lear, children's poets such as Dr. Seuss and Roald Dahl, and much less known poets, for example, Edgar Albert Guest, who wrote an incredible 11,000 poems in his lifetime! We become familiar with the full range of poetry only when we include sessions such as this that give a special place to poems that display wit and audacious rhymes to delight the reader – as Ogden Nash does.
After the session Arundhaty and her sister-in-law, Suvarna, laid out a feast of eats very artistically showcased: conical veg sandwiches, micro idlis spiced, gulab jamun, home-baked chocolate cake, murukku, banana chips, etc. We went away satiated, wishing each other for the Christmas season but still in awe of the wonderful poetry we had listened to.
Here we are outside the house on Arundhaty's lawn for the obligatory group shot to round off the reading:
Saras, Pamela, KumKum arriving at Arundhaty’s home
Arundhaty & Pamela
The occasion was combined with the birthday celebration of Arundhaty, and she kindly invited us to be guests in her home for the event and recite by the Chillavanoor river bank. As before we were expected to attend in droll costumes and wear incongruity as a badge. Spurred on by reminders, the readers turned out in great splashes of colour, the men rivalling the women. The photos will attest to their uninhibited display.
Thommo, Pamela, & Devika
Pamela, Devika, Geetha, Shoba, Saras
The poets included famous names like T. S. Eliot and Edward Lear, children's poets such as Dr. Seuss and Roald Dahl, and much less known poets, for example, Edgar Albert Guest, who wrote an incredible 11,000 poems in his lifetime! We become familiar with the full range of poetry only when we include sessions such as this that give a special place to poems that display wit and audacious rhymes to delight the reader – as Ogden Nash does.
Arundhaty, KumKum
Thommo, Pamela
After the session Arundhaty and her sister-in-law, Suvarna, laid out a feast of eats very artistically showcased: conical veg sandwiches, micro idlis spiced, gulab jamun, home-baked chocolate cake, murukku, banana chips, etc. We went away satiated, wishing each other for the Christmas season but still in awe of the wonderful poetry we had listened to.
Thommo, Geetha, Pamela, KumKum, Devika, Shoba, Saras, Arundhaty, Geeta
Geetha
