CMI Arts Initiative: Online Talks and Readings 2021
Date and time: Monday, 7 June 2021, 18:30 IST
Hunchprose: Of Language and Languages
Ranjit Hoskote
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07-06-21
Abstract
Ranjit Hoskote will speak about and read from his latest collection of
poems Hunchprose. Published by Penguin/ Hamish Hamilton, Hunchprose is
Ranjit Hoskote's seventh collection of poetry in 30 years. Douglas
Messerli, poet and founder of the Sun and Moon Press, says that this
book is "a work of fire and magic...Hunchprose presents a world of
absolute fear and wonderment at the very same moment." Poet and artist
Imtiaz Dharker writes that, in Hunchprose, "Hoskote takes myths,
troubled histories, the sounds of nature, the call of the market, and
gathers them all up into one richly resonating space." And Forrest
Gander, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, has this to say about
it: "Ranjit Hoskote's deeply affecting new book of poems, Hunchprose,
chronicles the passions of displaced men and women (and animals)
digging through history for their own traces... history remembers what
is sung by poets like Hoskote."
About the speaker:
Ranjit Hoskote's seven collections of poetry include Vanishing Acts:
New & Selected Poems (Penguin, 2006), Central Time (Penguin/ Viking,
2014), Jonahwhale (Penguin/ Hamish Hamilton, 2018; published by Arc in
the UK as The Atlas of Lost Beliefs, 2020, a Poetry Society Summer
Recommendation) and Hunchprose (Penguin/ Hamish Hamilton, 2021). His
translation of a celebrated 14th-century Kashmiri woman saint's poetry
has appeared as I, Lalla: The Poems of Lal Ded (Penguin Classics,
2011). He is the editor of Dom Moraes: Selected Poems (Penguin Modern
Classics, 2012). Hoskote has received the Sahitya Akademi Golden
Jubilee Award, the Sahitya Akademi Translation Award, and the SH Raza
Literature Award. He has been a Fellow of the International Writing
Program (IWP), University of Iowa; writer-in-residence at Villa
Waldberta, Munich, and the Polish Institute, Berlin; and
researcher-in-residence at BAK/ basis voor actuele kunst, Utrecht. His
poems have been translated into German, Hindi, Bang la, Irish,
Marathi, Swedish, Spanish, and Arabic.