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Manohar Shetty
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Vast freckled Englishwomen Pylon-limbed Thaw in the sun. Their breasts Loll out like baby Sealions. * * * Flabby leftovers of Valhalla Diet on bread and bananas. Their dozing blue eyes stroke Small boys in torn Pyjamas. * * * The German studies the Vedanta In translation through chromax Dark glasses, her oozing Tattoo mobbed by Bluebottles. * * * The temple elephant, vermilion Swastika on its domed Forehead, lumbers Unblinking over the buff Sands. |
Manohar Shetty is a noted poet of Indian English literature. He has recently published ‘Full Disclosure: New and Collected Poems (1985-2017)' comprising his eight books of poems, including ‘Domestic Creatures’ and ‘Living Room’. His poems have appeared in a number of literary journals including ‘London Magazine’, ‘Poetry Review’ (London) and ‘Poetry Wales’ for which he edited a special India number. In the US, his poems have been published in ‘New Letters’, ‘Chelsea’ ‘Shenandoah’, ‘Atlanta Review’, ‘Rattapallax’, ‘The Baffler’, ‘Fulcrum’ and ‘The Common’. Several anthologies feature his work, notably ‘The Oxford India Anthology of Twelve Modern Indian Poets’ in anthologies edited by Eunice de Souza, Vilas Sarang and Jeet Thayil. He has edited ‘Ferry Crossing: Short Stories from Goa’ which has gone into several reprints and ‘Goa Travels: Being the Accounts of Travellers from the 16th to the 21st Century’. He has worked in various magazines and newspapers in Mumbai, Bangalore and Goa and was editor of ‘Goa Today’ for eight years. He has been a Sahitya Academy, Homi Bhabha and Raza Foundation Fellow and has lived in Goa since1985.
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