South African Woodcut

Based on the experiences of a lecture and reading tour in South Africa, these poems deal with the state of a society just unfreezing from apartheid, but in indirect ways which illuminate by their obliqueness. "The poems deal with that landscape, each one like a sharply etched woodcut, ranging from a fine tribute to a poet caught 'under the strong shaft of the Johannesburg sun' of this politically volcanic city, to a 'frozen image' of sacred ibises in Durban's Botanical Garden.

None of his poems is tendentious, but each is tense with quiet intensity."Mario Relich, Lines ReviewSudeep Sen lives and works in New Delhi & London.

He is the editorial director of AARK ARTS.