 Kobisena P40 Nandana Park, Calcutta 700034, W.B., India Rs. 25/- Overseas 3 IRCs email Kobisena Before commenting on this review please read the FAQ page Home page Notes for publishers Want to be a reviewer? Anthologies. Books. Audio. Magazines. Software. Video. Artefacts. Web design by Gerald England This page last updated: 23rd March 2004. |
Kobisena #30 | |
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This is an eight sided pamphlet focusing on avant garde/experimental poetry which frequently includes graphics in the body of the work. The pamphlet is unusual in several ways. It is bilingual, printed in Bengali and English, and it carries the exhortation Please copy this issue and distribute anywhere in the globe.The writers are not only from India but also from America. The following poem by Uptal is shown without the (few) graphics, but it is reasonably accessible without them, and gives a flavour of the contributions to KOBISENA. Mockery What if i say the country is in the hands of mock patriots: it is a mock poetry i write but do not live on poems i do a job but do not live on my job i do a certain job for sustenance, but i do extract sustenance from poetry-writing He is a mock poet He is a mock jobber stone Him Screw him Banish Him Hell with Him He is a malefactor: The country is in the hands of the........... Do not utterThe poetry found in Kobisena is full of the same concerns poets write of everywhere: relationships and family, life and love, existence and imagination. This small pamphlet provides some interesting work, strong enough to make the reader pause for reflection. | ||
| reviewer: John Crook. |