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Guest and Host

Poems from Calcutta
  • ISBN-13: 9780856463518
  • Publisher: CARCANET PRESS
    Imprint: ANVIL PRESS POETRY
  • By Joe Winter
  • Price: AUD $22.99
  • Stock: 3 in stock
  • Availability: Order will be despatched as soon as possible.
  • Local release date: 27/02/2013
  • Format: Paperback (217.00mm X 139.00mm) 96 pages Weight: 140g
  • Categories: Poetry by individual poets [DCF]
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"Guest and Host" records the experience of being welcomed into the household of a foreign country. At some distance from the travel-book viewpoint of the outsider-looking-in, Winter is able to capture the country in a deeper light through staying rather than travelling, and living rather than merely observing. The sonnet-sequence "Guest and Host" is complemented by a powerful poem on the 2001 earthquake at Kutch; a fascinating sequence based on the reminiscences of an infantry officer of the British Raj; and, a dramatic poem on Durga, the goddess of Calcutta's annual festival of Durga Puja.
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