Table of Contents

I... Prolectric Kalagora II... Sunya Little Taste Journey Schooldays Romanticism Nameless Sleepless (in America) Wandering shadow Proposal Sex and the City Back and Forth Swansong, Mile End East Village, New York Entracte III... Maya Sketching Eye Candy Hampi (Ruins) Garden, Bangalore Still Life: Artichoke Triangle Shoreditch Serenade IV... Nagri Prologue/novel Animal City Finding Time Chinatown, New York Benares Portrait, Little Lane, Calcutta Istanbul, November, '03 Mother's Lament V... Epilepsis Sketching (slight return)

About the Author

There is multiculturalism, romanticism, orientalism; travel, rebellion, jazz; fantasy, love, sex. Kalagora is one of the most impressive debut volumes I have read in recent years. - Sudeep Sen Kalagora is a vital book of poems for the 21st century. - James Byrne Siddhartha Bose is a poet and performer based in London. He grew up in Bombay and Calcutta, followed by a seven year itch in the USA. Selections of his work have appeared in the anthologies City State: New London Poetry and Voice Recognition: 21 Poets for the 21st Century. Bose has recently completed a PhD at Queen Mary, University of London. He is playwright-in-residence with WhynotTheatre, Toronto, and was dubbed one of the 'ten rising stars of British poetry' by The Times.

Reviews

There is a sense of an Odyssean voyage, a continuous exile, full of temptation and danger ... This is a collection that is always dramatic, always in tune with the sensational possibilities of language. - Wasafiri One of the most exciting first collections I've come across in a long time ... Kalagora bestrides continents and celebrates cities as engines of creativity where dogs talk in hieroglyphs and where a man can be a moth. - Ian McMillan, The Verb, BBC Radio 3 Kalagora is an incantatory assertion, if not of identity, then of power and confidence in moving through identities. - Magma Bose's use of language - invented words, nouns made into verbs and other colourful concoctions - produces a writhing, seething, pulsating poetry. - Poetry Book Society Bulletin Siddhartha Bose intrigues, surprises, shocks and seduces the reader, pushing the text to the edges of truth. This is a guttural, painfully honest text, yet at times tender and emotive, the sound of the poems creating a form of sculpture for the ear. A truly contemporary work which does what good poetry does best: to make the personal universal and the international local. - Anthony Joseph