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World Poetry Portfolio #52: Jenny Lewis

By on November 27, 2011 in POETRY, WPP

Poet, playwright, and teacher Jenny Lewis taught Vashti Bunyan to play the guitar. Her recent work has explored the legend of Gilgamesh and her father’s military work in Mesopotamia. She is a Contributing Editor to Molossus.

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Bullets, Bladerunner, Sibyls and Shells: a Conversation with the Poet Ruth Fainlight

By on March 20, 2011 in INTERVIEW, POETRY

Poet, translator, and dramatist Jenny Lewis talks with the similarly multi-genre Ruth Fainlight about her poetry, life, experience shooting guns, and her love of B-movies. A “feminist from birth,” Fainlight counted Robert Graves, Sylvia Plath, and Ted Hughes among her close friends.

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…like a bird beating its wings over water: Sanskriti’s Ayyanar Sculpture Project

By on February 17, 2010 in ART, BEST OF

The renowned Tamil Nadu potters, who create traditional village figures and panels in their pottery at the Sanscriti Kenda in New Delhi, packed up a selection of their work to send to a major exhibition in Paris.

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A Poem from Delhi

By on January 20, 2010 in POETRY

Molossus UK Poetry Columnist Jenny Lewis is currently in residence at the Sanskriti Centre in Delhi, India collaborating with printmaker and book artist Frances Kiernan and the distinguished Indian poet Sudeep Sen, Molossus International Editor-at-Large, on a series of poems and artworks around trees, plants and the ayurvedic system of healing. “Maker” was inspired by a strangely [...]

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The Transcending of Tongues: Jenny Lewis on Sudeep Sen

By on August 19, 2009 in POETRY

Sudeep Sen’s highly praised books include Postmarked India, Prayer Flag, Distracted Geographies, and the poetic meditation, Rain, illustrated by twenty of India’s top artists.

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The Mad Are Not Mad like Us: An Interview with K. Satchidanandan

By on August 3, 2009 in INTERVIEW, POETRY

K. Satchidanandan (Satchi) is a poet of national and international repute writing in Malayalam. He was Professor of English at Christ College, University of Calicut, Kerala, editor of Indian Literature, the journal of the Sahitya Akademi (The National Academy of Letters) and later its Chief Executive. He has 21 collections of poetry in Malayalam, 16 collections of world poetry in translation and 23 collections of critical essays and interviews besides three collections of essays in English and several works in Malayalam, English and Hindi.

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