Digital monsoon

Bose, S (2013) Digital monsoon. Penned in the Margins, London. ISBN 9781908058164

Official URL: https://www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk/index.php/201...

Abstract

None of this is the city. All of it is you. So writes Siddhartha Bose in his new book of experimental poetry – Digital Monsoon. In this follow-up to the acclaimed debut Kalagora, Bose proposes the poet as a twenty-first century beatnik, a ravenous language machine eating up the margins of the city. Dreams trigger extraordinary visions of an apocalyptic London populated by technologised bodies; beat-boxers and graffiti writers as urban oracles; the ghosts of a multicultural city moving through banks and brothels, kebab shops and squat parties. Dispatches from the post-industrial landscapes of the North, and from the poet’s hometowns of Mumbai and Kolkata, complete this raw and uncompromisingly modern collection of poems and texts. Composed in Bose’s trademark rhythmical, open field style, Digital Monsoon celebrates the dynamism of the urban edgeland in an updated Jazz Age poetic.

Item Type: Book
Divisions: School of Writing, Publishing and the Humanities
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URN: https://researchspace.bathspa.ac.uk/id/eprint/17314
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