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Manohar Shetty

  • Stills from Baga Beach
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Vast freckled Englishwomen
Pylon-limbed
Thaw in the sun. Their breasts
Loll out like baby
Sealions.
         
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Flabby leftovers of Valhalla
Diet on bread and bananas.
Their dozing blue eyes stroke
Small boys in torn
Pyjamas.
 
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The German studies the Vedanta
In translation through chromax
Dark glasses, her oozing
Tattoo mobbed by
Bluebottles.
 
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The temple elephant, vermilion
Swastika on its domed
Forehead, lumbers
Unblinking over the buff
Sands.
 
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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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