Flaubert's Drum by Sugu Pillay

By Sugu Pillay

Sugu Pillay’s concept upsetting paintings shifts without difficulty among New Zealand – with a unbroken integration of Maori subject matters – and Asian locales, particularly India, yet is additionally proficient via classical thinkers and artists. A tough learn, with its allusiveness, yet one with rewards for these open to its startling juxtapositions and time warps.

The name is from Flaubert’s remark: “Human language is sort of a cracked kettle on which we beat our tunes for bears to bounce to while for all time we lengthy to maneuver the celebs to pity”.

Previously titled In Medias Res, the gathering was once hugely recommended within the 2012 IP choices most sensible Poetry Awards and is a suite of generally released poems from 1995 to 2012.

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