Poems
Published on 25. April 2025
Book
Hardback
203 pages
978-1-80309-457-1 (ISBN)
Description
Word-pictures crafted by a master artist from everyday moments offer deep reflections on contemporary existence in this poem collection.
I lie and lay my head upon the grass
And unwind the body hardened stiff like glass.
But the tiny blades tickle the lower ear
Making me ask myself, why do I bear
This crass impertinence and sink my head
Still further down its bed of prickly green?
So asks the poet, his ears pressed against the earth as he maps the world around him in a new geography of sound. Places, photographs, books, neighbors, afternoons, love, loss, and longing are sketched into word-pictures by Subramanyan as he reflects, reacts, and reminisces in this collection of poems. These memoir-poems will help throw into relief some of Subramanyan's symbols and motifs, better contextualizing his oeuvre.
I lie and lay my head upon the grass
And unwind the body hardened stiff like glass.
But the tiny blades tickle the lower ear
Making me ask myself, why do I bear
This crass impertinence and sink my head
Still further down its bed of prickly green?
So asks the poet, his ears pressed against the earth as he maps the world around him in a new geography of sound. Places, photographs, books, neighbors, afternoons, love, loss, and longing are sketched into word-pictures by Subramanyan as he reflects, reacts, and reminisces in this collection of poems. These memoir-poems will help throw into relief some of Subramanyan's symbols and motifs, better contextualizing his oeuvre.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Greenford
United Kingdom
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 241 mm
Width: 165 mm
Thickness: 41 mm
Weight
1016 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-80309-457-1 (9781803094571)
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K. G. Subramanyan (1924-2016) was one of India's most respected artists. He was part of the arts faculty at M. S. University, Baroda, and was professor emeritus at the Kala Bhavan Center at Visva-Bharati University in Santiniketan, India. In 2012, he received the Padma Vibhushan, India's second-highest civilian award, for his outstanding contribution to the arts. His other books include Moving Focus: Essays on Indian Art and Living Tradition: Perspectives on Modern Indian Art, both also published by Seagull Books.
Content
POEMS (2006)
Summer Noon
In the Night's Deep Furrow
The New Encounter
Nissim Revisited
Night Fall
Afternoon in August
Seaside Reverie
Cloud Time in Kailas
A Walk-back in Time
Resizing Each Other
The Seminar
The Photograph
Thoughts at Sundown
Neighbour
Then and Now
The First of Ashad
Gujarat 2002
Talking to Oneself with One's Ears to the Grass
Love at First Sight (Or Was It Second?)
The Conference
Farm Birds and Faces
The Odalisque and the Jumping Cat
The Pool
The Visitor
Odd Encounter
The Mirror
The Circle
The Annunciation
Purvapalli Sonnets
Renu-di
Demai-da
Dinner at Night
Viva Kundera
The Party
When You Close Your Eyes
A Long-lost Summer
Rain-soaked Evening
Doctor
POEMS: RHYMES OF RECALL (2014)
Recall
The First Encounter
On a Rainy Day
Reaching Out
The Health Walk
Wednesday Outing
Missed Tryst
Sense of Truth
The Riddle
Art and Artifice
Change of Weather
Monsoon Thoughts
The Wall
A Near Vision
Magic of Mantras
The Myna of Mynamati
Change of Scene
Reminiscence
Passage
After Malegaon
Homopolis
Speaking of Old Days
The Shadow
The Night at Rishikesh
To Somnath Zutshi
Shadow World
Summer Noon
In the Night's Deep Furrow
The New Encounter
Nissim Revisited
Night Fall
Afternoon in August
Seaside Reverie
Cloud Time in Kailas
A Walk-back in Time
Resizing Each Other
The Seminar
The Photograph
Thoughts at Sundown
Neighbour
Then and Now
The First of Ashad
Gujarat 2002
Talking to Oneself with One's Ears to the Grass
Love at First Sight (Or Was It Second?)
The Conference
Farm Birds and Faces
The Odalisque and the Jumping Cat
The Pool
The Visitor
Odd Encounter
The Mirror
The Circle
The Annunciation
Purvapalli Sonnets
Renu-di
Demai-da
Dinner at Night
Viva Kundera
The Party
When You Close Your Eyes
A Long-lost Summer
Rain-soaked Evening
Doctor
POEMS: RHYMES OF RECALL (2014)
Recall
The First Encounter
On a Rainy Day
Reaching Out
The Health Walk
Wednesday Outing
Missed Tryst
Sense of Truth
The Riddle
Art and Artifice
Change of Weather
Monsoon Thoughts
The Wall
A Near Vision
Magic of Mantras
The Myna of Mynamati
Change of Scene
Reminiscence
Passage
After Malegaon
Homopolis
Speaking of Old Days
The Shadow
The Night at Rishikesh
To Somnath Zutshi
Shadow World