The City under the City (Paperback)

by John Kinsella , Jeet thayil

Category: Foreign Language Books

TK. 998

বইটি বিদেশি প্রকাশনী বা সাপ্লাইয়ারের নিকট থেকে সংগ্রহ করে আনতে আমাদের ৩০ থেকে ৪০ কর্মদিবস সময় লেগে যেতে পারে।

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Over a period of two years, John Kinsella and Jeet Thayil wrote call-and-response poems from whichever part of the world they happened to be in. This book tracks the poets' engagement with various cities around the world, across the decades, in positive, negative and tangential ways, in recollection and in real time. This is poetry open to the experience of 'foreign' places, so that the foreign becomes immediate, intimate and familiar. Unexpected resonances occur, for it is also a work of addiction and recovery, of confrontation and meditation, and the understanding that if language is a virus, it is also the cure.

The City under the City is urgent and necessary reading, looking over and under, excavating memory for loss and revelation.

Title	The City under the City
Author	John Kinsella , Jeet thayil
Publisher	Fourth Estate (India)
ISBN	9789369899395
Edition	Edition, 2025
Number of Pages	116
Country	India
Language	English

John Kinsella

John Kinsella has published over seventy books of poetry, fiction, criticism, plays, edited works (such as The Penguin Book of Australian Poetry) and collaborative works. His many awards include the Australian Prime Minister's Literary Award for Poetry, the Victorian Premier's Award for Poetry, the John Bray Award for Poetry, the Judith Wright Calanthe Award for Poetry (twice) and the Western Australian Premier's Award for Poetry (three times). Recent books include Insomnia: Poems (2019), Cell night: A Verse Novel (2023), the poetry collection Argonautica Inlandica (2023),and the three volumes of his collected poems, The Ascension of Sheep(2022), Harsh Hakea (2023) and Spirals (2024). A frequent collaborator with other poets, writers, artists, musicians and thinkers, he lives on Ballardong Noongar land at ‘Jam Tree Gully' in the Western Australian wheatbelt. In 2007, he received the Christopher Brennan Award for Lifetime Achievement in Poetry.