Published : Jun 15, 2023 11:00 IST - 6 MINS READ Naveen Kishore is a phenomenon in our literary and cultural space. Mother Muse Quintet By Naveen Kishore Speaking Tiger Pages: 136 Price: Rs.399 Kishore is also a poet: his debut book of poems, Knotted Grief, has a section, “Kashmiriyat”, which was much praised by readers and reviewers. Deceptively plain …
Haiku-like and delicate as butterfly wings, the poems in Naveen Kishore’s collection Knotted Grief traverse the landscape of grief and loss. Through lines and phrases such as “burst into flame/ solitary flower immolating/ your petals detonating/ like suicide vests”, “a sky full of bullet wounds” and “dogs sniffing blood/ on chinar leaves”, Kishore juxtaposes one kind of image with its …
