Description

Hummingbirds Chapbook Series edited by Ashwani Kumar

Presented by Red River and Indian Novels Collective

All three series together — a bundle of 12 titles

Hummingbirds are distinguished by their dazzling colours, diminutive size, and speedy flight, the only birds that can fly backwards, upside down, sideways, and hover in mid-air. Sighting a hummingbird also signals that challenging times are over and healing can begin. These little birds are also a sign of hope and spiritual significance. They are also critically endangered species, facing the prospect of extinction due to climate change.

Since publishing poetry is considered perhaps the most adventurous or perilous creative journey, curating a poetry series in the name of hummingbirds literally and metaphorically affirms our faith in the commitment and belief in the power of small to achieve the impossible.

Inspired by Wangari Maathai, the Kenyan activist and the first woman Nobel Peace Prize winner from Africa, who pioneered Green Belt Movement, and a great believer in the power of hummingbirds, we believe that our Hummingbirds Chapbook Series, a joint initiative of Red River and Indian Novels Collective, will energise poets and poetry lovers to come together and help create a republic of imagination.

Therefore, as editors of this series, we invite you to publish original works of poetry, though not to the exclusion of previously published works of luminous quality, from a wide horizon of genres, styles and linguistic practices including translation from regional languages of India. In short, we hope the Hummingbirds Series will be memorable for their earthy beauty and urgency to fly into possible and impossible futures!

Sincerely yours

Ashwani Kumar, Co-founder of Indian Novels Collective

Dibyajyoti Sarma, Publisher, Red River

 

Hummingbirds Chapbook Series I

 

If Stones Could Speak by Bina Sarkar

ISBN: 978-93-48111-18-0

Page: 32

 

Five Poems by Priya Sarukkai Chabria

ISBN: 978-93-48111-61-6

Page: 32

 

Dialogues with Ganga by Sukrita

ISBN: 978-93-48111-79-1

 

Map of Memories by Ashwani Kumar

ISBN: 978-93-48111-04-3

Page: 32

 

Hummingbirds Chapbook Series II

 

Slow Dow, River by Anamika

translated from the Hindi by Mani Rao

ISBN: 978-93-48111-66-1

Page: 32

 

As a Song Went Home by Harekrishna Deka

translated from the Assamese by Pradip Acharya

ISBN: 978-93-48111-87-6

Page: 32

 

Hide and Seek by Mamta Sagar

translated from Kannada by the Poet and Chitra Pannikar

ISBN: 978-93-48111-00-5

Page: 32

 

Ceasefire by Subodh Sarkar

translated from the Bengali by Matralina Pati

ISBN: 978-93-48111-10-4

Page: 32

 

Hummingbirds Chapbook Series III

 

A House Called Sorrow by K Satchidanandan

ISBN: 978-81-69092-11-1

Page: 54

 

These, My Hands, Aren’t Actually Mine by Durga Prasad Panda

ISBN: 978-93-48111-87-6

Page: 46

 

Things Remained Unsaid by Prabal Kumar Basu

translated from the Bengali by Barnali Roy

ISBN: 978-81-69092-08-1

Page: 34

 

Eka Janardani Sharan by Eknath

translated from the Bengali by Anjali Purohit

ISBN: 978-81-69092-07-4

Page: 42