Space Cake, Amsterdam, and Other Poems Nepal
Tourism Board
September 2, 2009
The prelaunch of 'Space Cake, Amsterdam, and Other Poems from Europe and America' was held on the 2nd of September in the Lecture Hall of Nepal Tourism Board. Yuyutsu RD Sharma, an eminent poet and translator, who delivered a few of his favorite poems and shared some personal experiences of his travel. Poems titled 'At 40 you die', 'Temple London' and 'Space Cake, Amsterdam' were discussed among others. Sharma shared the feeling of euphoria and paranoia he'd experienced. A 'space cake,' (common in regions with liberal drug policies), are bakery products containing a form of cannabis usually hash or marijuana. Edited by Michael Annis, the book contains poems that celebrate the political and social aspects of life. Sharma also shared with the audience how he was boisterously travelling about spreading poetry, passion and knowledge about the Himalayas. Although it is already published by Howling Dog Press, (Colorado, U.S.A), 'Space Cake, Amsterdam, and Other Poems from Europe and America' is being published by Nirala Publications (New Delhi) too and is already available in Kathmandu's White Lotus Book Shop.
Tuesday, October 13, 2009
Hudson Valley readings
Yuyutsu R. D. Sharma,
one of the most distinguished authors of South Asia ,
author of The Lake Fewa & a Horse; Space Cake Amsterdam , & Other Poems from Europe and America , Around Annapurna,
and five other books of poetry will read
photo by Patricia Seaton
* at 7:00 p.m. on November 5 at Noble Coffee Roasters, Rte. 207, Campbell Hall,
* at 4:00 p.m. on November 7 at Baby Grand Books, 7 West Street in Warwick,
* and at 7:00 p. m. at Morrison Hall, SUNY Orange , Middletown .
Enemies of Poetry
A monkey’s anarchic
hand tears apart
a weaver-bird’s nest
hanging like an embroidered dream
from the green
core of a bamboo grove.
A critic’s frog
eye dabbles with colors
of a rainbow of a poem
on a cold table of Establishment.
One-eyed baron
what would you prove?
that poetry doesn’t mean anything?
and that like the earth itself it is dying?
How many villages
of silences would you bulldoze
to build
an empire of lecherous tycoons?
How many mantras,
mountains and riverbeds would you
swallow to raise
reeking pyramids of audio-visual cassettes
compact discs and Internet
wherein like an ancient
king’s bejeweled mummy
a wail of poetry shall feverishly
stretch itself
for the restoration of a regime of written words.
A good looking career woman
shall rise out from a showman’s wet bed
and start putting
her makeup on for a bestseller’s blurb.
Enemies of poetry shall
first blast a poet’s
innocent, aerial hand
drawing pure mandalas
of lilting alphabets
on a crisp homemade sheet of paper
and laying the last
flower on the poet’s garve
shall switch
the color T.V. on.
Nirala Book of Chicagoland Poets
Nirala Book of Chicagoland Poets
Call for Submissions
Nirala Publications, (New Delhi, www.niralapublications.com) has announced the forthcoming publication of Chicagoland Poets.
The 300-page anthology, edited by Illinois poets Robin Metz and Nina Corwin, will be launched in Chicago, New York, London, New Delhi, and Kathmandu for worldwide distribution. The Series Editor is Yuyutsu R.D. Sharma.
Named after the great Indian poet, Suryakant Tripathi ‘Nirala’, Nirala Publications is a significant South Asian publishing house featuring best known as well as little known authors from India, Nepal, and rest of the world. Over past two decades, it has featured scores of internationally known writers like Rabindra Nath Tagore, Jayanta Mahapatra, David Ray, Cathal O’ Searcaigh, Rishikesh Shaha, Larry G Peters, Yuyutsu RD Sharma, Murari P Regmi, Ronny Someck, Gopal Prasad Rimal, Ramanand Rathi, Laxmi Devkota, and Evald Flisar.
Over the years its focus has been Nepal, Buddhism, shamanism, and the Himalayan studies. Today it remains the largest publishing house in the world to publish maximum books on Nepal. It also aspires to bring to the Asian readers the best known literature from all over world, especially poetry.
Nirala also collaborates with several foreign publishers and institutes and in future hopes to present to its readers the healthy literature and original research from all over the world. In addition, it supports Pratik, A Magazine of Contemporary Writing edited by Yuyutsu RD Sharma and has been instrumental in making publication of the magazine’s several special issues.
Among many of its Special issues, most recent remains the Special British issue featuring the very best of contemporary poetry from the UK including Moniza Alvi, Ruth Padel, Robin Robertson, Sean O’Brien, David Constantine, Mimi Khalvati, Fiona Sampson, Alice Oswald, Daljit Nagra, Patience Agbabi, Selima Hill, Matthew Sweeney, Robert Minhinnick, Gwyneth Lewis, Les Murray, Tim Liardet, George Szirtes, Pascale Petit, John Kinsella, Polly Clark, Nick Laird, Colette Bryce, John Haynes, Carol Rumens, Penelope Shuttle, and W.N. Herbert. Pascale Petit, leading British poet and Former Editor of Poetry London remained its Guest Editor.
For the forthcoming Chicago Anthology, poets born or currently living in Chicago (or environs) may submit up to five poems of any length on any subject (including, especially, poems about Chicago and environs, or southeast Asia).
Poets not born or currently living in Chicago may also submit up to five poems on any subject related to Chicago (or environs).
While unpublished poems are preferred, previously published poems are welcomed. A statement indicating that the poet retains reprint rights should accompany each submission of previously published poems.
A brief biographical statement of 100 words (indicating the poet’s ties to Chicago, if applicable) should accompany the submission.
Deadline for submissions is August 31, 2009 and should be emailed to: treehouse523@sbcglobal.net in a single .doc or .rtf file with Chicagoland Poetry in the subject line OR addressed to: Chicagoland Poetry c/o Nina Corwin 523 S Plymouth Ct, Chicago, IL 60605. Please include SASE for reply only. MSS will not be returned.
Poets included in the anthology will receive a complimentary copy.
Poemes De L'Himalaya --New Book Share
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Monday, October 12, 2009
Press Release from Nirala-- New book
Yuyutsu RD Sharma's Annapurnas and Stains of Blood: Life Travels and Writing on a Page of Snow
Annapurnas & Stains of Blood is a highly engrossing account of world’s youngest republic passing through great historic transformation.
Internationally known poet and columnist for several dailies including The Himalayan Times and The Kathmandu Post, Yuyutsu RD Sharma for the first time brings alive the secret commotion behind the great change in Himalayan nation that the whole world has been watching curiously. In his lucent prose, he puts together his best to unleash the myriad colors of violence in the contemporary Nepal and in the rest of the world during his legendry travels.
Terror on the deserted Nepalese highways, merciless butchering of innocent Nepali workers in Baghdad, dismal day of London Bombing, murder of Theo van Gogh, the State of emergency in India, the book captures rare moments in contemporary history that readers would treasure not just for themselves but for the posterity.
Here you will find a distinguished poet churning out his best prose, at best of his poetic capabilities.
ISBN81-8250-012-5
Published by
Nirala Publications New Delhi-2 2010 Price:395 Hard Non- Fiction
Annapurnas & Stains of Blood is a highly engrossing account of world’s youngest republic passing through great historic transformation.
Internationally known poet and columnist for several dailies including The Himalayan Times and The Kathmandu Post, Yuyutsu RD Sharma for the first time brings alive the secret commotion behind the great change in Himalayan nation that the whole world has been watching curiously. In his lucent prose, he puts together his best to unleash the myriad colors of violence in the contemporary Nepal and in the rest of the world during his legendry travels.
Terror on the deserted Nepalese highways, merciless butchering of innocent Nepali workers in Baghdad, dismal day of London Bombing, murder of Theo van Gogh, the State of emergency in India, the book captures rare moments in contemporary history that readers would treasure not just for themselves but for the posterity.
Here you will find a distinguished poet churning out his best prose, at best of his poetic capabilities.
ISBN81-8250-012-5
Published by
Nirala Publications New Delhi-2 2010 Price:395 Hard Non- Fiction
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