Böcker av Keki N. Daruwalla

Keki Daruwalla uncommon responsiveness to the natural world, and the rare immediacy of his language.

DeScriPtionA towering figure in English poetry from South Asia, Keki Daruwalla has beenadmired by an entire generation of readers for the power and vigour, the sharpsense of irony and, more recently, the deep, strangely soothing poignancyof his poems. He has also been acclaimed for the historical and geographicalsweep of his themes, his uncommon responsiveness to the natural world, andthe rare immediacy of his language.All of these qualities inform his extraordinary new collection of poemswritten over almost five years, between 2018 and 2022, including the longmonths of the COVID pandemic when Daruwalla was infected himself, andproduced a magnificent long poem-'The Night Attendant'.In this major work, Daruwalla shows us again why he is a giant, and a trueoriginal, of Indian poetry.