Something for organic gardeners: World Kitchen Garden Day is being celebrated in Bangalore on Sunday.
There’s also a seed swap event organised by Geekgardener at his place. Details at his blog which is a fantastic resource of veggie-growing ideas and tips.
Uncountable tiny pebbles
of many colours.Broken seashells mixed in with whole ones.
~ Jane Hirschfield, On the Beach
what I mean to say is, here are some links of interest:
The next Toto Funds the Arts reading: Sampurna Chattarji will be reading from her latest book of poetry, Absent Muses, in Bangalore on Thursday, 24 March, at 6.30 pm at Crossword Book Store on Residency Road. Here’s the Facebook event page.
Here is ‘Salt’ by Chattarji at poet Todd Swift’s blog Eyewear. And this is a bit about Absent Muses from here:
Sampurna Chattarji’s second book of poems, Absent Muses, builds on the strengths of her first, Sight May Strike You Blind (2007). Like Franco Magnani, the American painter who—in Oliver Sacks’ account—held the totality of his long-lost Tuscan birthplace in mind and rendered it obsessively, Chattarji commits herself to keeping real all that is consecrated by memory and passion. Unlike Magnani, she does not trap herself in a vow of nostalgia; her poems also reach forward in space and time, to shape the expanding curve of experience into record. They are tools of investigation into myth, history, metropolitan life and, importantly, the ambiguities of the personal quest for poetic expression.
Toto Funds the Arts and British Council are holding a poetry workshop by Sampurna Chattarji. Details here.
Date: 26-27 March, 10.00 a.m. – 5.30 p.m.
Venue:British Library, Prestige Takt, 23 Kasturba Road Cross (Opp: Visvesvaraiah Industrial & Technological Museum), Bengaluru
Registration Guidelines: Catering to the age group of 18 – 35 yrs, this workshop will host a maximum 12 participants. We will necessarily screen applicants. So please email ONE ‘finished’ poem to tfaindia84@gmail.com by March 10, 2011 to help Sampurna choose the participants. Once you are selected, you can send in your cheque for Rs 1800 made out to Toto Funds the Arts, at H-301, Adarsh Gardens, 47th Cross, 8th Block, Jayanagar, Bengaluru, 560082. Those selected must bring with them, to the workshop, ONE ‘finished’ poem (either the one they had sent earlier or a new one) and ONE poem in progress.
Totally fab journal Pratilipi has now started their own publishing house. See Pratilipi Books for a list of their books which include three Swedish novels translated into English and Home From a Distance, an anthology of 19 Hindi poets translated into English. The book covers look very snazzy too.
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