Media coverage of ‘Hibiscus’
I wasn’t inspired by another COVID poetry collection that was creating a buzz on social media: I was aimed at a substantial anthology that would provide genuine relief to the readers in these trying times. The Telegraph-t2 carries my interview (both in print and online) today: I told them how it all happened. I’m grateful to my co-editors, Anu Majumdar & Dustin Pickering, and Bitan Chakraborty, founder of Hawakal, and all contributing poets for helping me curate Hibiscus: poems that heal and empower.
“Crisis makes literature more rich and powerful. Poetry will emerge as more potent, more earthy, and more relatable.”
— Kiriti Sengupta [The Telegraph]
Online link: https://www.telegraphindia.com/culture/books/poems-meant-for-healing-in-the-middle-of-a-pandemic/cid/1783469
Other Coverage:
Book Review: Kiriti Sengupta, Anu Majumdar and Dustin Pickering’s ‘Hibiscus: Poems that heal and empower’
By Mosarrap H Khan Kirti Sengupta, Anu Majumdar and Dustin Pickering’s Hibiscus: Poems that heal and empower encapsulates the role and duty of a poet in times of pandemic in much the same way Pushkin imagined doing it: by empowering us to think beyond death.
Other Coverage
Pandemic and its Verse – AI | Arts Illustrated | An Indian based arts and design magazine
Pandemic and its Verse The newly published ‘Hibiscus: poems that heal and empower’ carries with it the resonating touch of the flower itself – delivering a strong message of hope Team AI To say that life in 2020 has taken a sharp left turn; that the pandemic has put a wrench on all our carefully laid out plans, would be a gross understatement.