Magadh Tineke Meirink

Magadh Tineke MeirinkShrikant Verma (trans. Rahul Soni) Magadh, Shrikant Vermas masterpiece, was first published in Hindi in 1984 and is widely regarded as one of the most important works of modern Indian poetry. A chorus of narrators commoners, statesmen, nameless wanderers pieces together the histories of ancient cities and kingdoms on the Indian subcontinent, their rise to splendour, their decline and eventual fall. In poems that are stark and urgent yet arch and

appropriated forms

and in so doing transgresses the borders of the poem

essayist en vertaler

and activism intertwine

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written in a form Ishion Hutchinson calls ‘contrapuntal versets’

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