A warm place with no memory

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Author: Gayatri Majumdar
Published Date: 01/01/2024
ISBN: 978-93-92494-68-0
Pages: 78

Longlisted for The Wise Owl Literary Awards (Poetry) 2024

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The poet who proclaims ‘You are tree to me’ knows poise and action in equal measure. Gayatri Majumdar has that rare eye which can see ‘a neighbour’ pouring ‘ghee into’ a ‘fairy tale’s dying hour’. She melds dream, desire, myth and memory into an experience that transcends the merely vicarious. Honest, earnest and effusive, the poems in a warm place with no memory are unhurried remouldings of the idiom of worship.  — Sarabjeet Garcha, author of All We Have

These poems by Gayatri Majumdar are very special invitations.  Their dance will welcome you with colour, with balm and, yes, with concern. And, you’ll enjoy their greetings made vividly poignant by the birdsong that surrounds them. — Hiram Larew, award-winning poet, advocate, and leader in the arts and poetry community

Gayatri Majumdar’s poetry, impassioned and profound, is rooted in the pure and absurd beauty of living. They touch on different signposts of life and, in the process, transcend their own boundaries. She is a major voice in Indian poetry in English. — Sekhar Banerjee, poet and a Pushcart Prize nominee, 2021

 

As editor, publisher and founder of critically acclaimed Indian literary journal, The Brown Critique for over two decades (1995–2015), GAYATRI MAJUMDAR published hundreds of established and emerging poets from India and other countries. She began her career as a journalist in Press Trust of India and The Independent (India) in Mumbai. Her career also encompasses leadership in the publishing industry and work in NGOs. Gayatri’s books include A Song for Bela (a novel; Sun Publishing, 2017); poetry collections Shout (Sampark, 2000), I Know You are Here (Red River, 2019), The Dream Pod (Copper Coin, 2022); non-fiction The lotus of the heart (2021; to be available as an audiobook in 2024) and Brown Critique Home anthology (co-ed, 2021). Her poems and prose have been published in major journals and anthologies and featured in The Indian PEN, A Hudson View, ‘Poetry International Web’, Indian Literature, BigBridge, Open Space India, The Sun Collective, Hibiscus: Poems That Heal and Empower, Open Your Eyes: An Anthology on Climate Change and Shimmer Spring, Setu, Chipmunk, emerging poetry, Borderless Journal (Singapore), Dreich (Scotland–India), Renaissance, Direct Path, Sri Aurobindo’s Action, The Kali Project anthology (US) and trouvaille – A Travel Anthology. Gayatri was on the Review Committee of Yearbook of Indian Poetry 2022 and her poems are a part of Converse: Pippa Rann Poetry anthology–India@75 (UK). She is currently working on her next non-fiction title.

As co-founder of ‘Pondicherry Poets’, Gayatri has been curating the annual Pondicherry/Auroville Poetry Festival. Apart from hosting and participating in several literary/music/sustainable tourism events in Pondicherry and across India, in September 2019, she curated a seven-day residential ‘Wings of Spirit’ literary/music festival in Talla Ramgarh, Nainital, in the Himalayas. ‘The Brown Critique_Gayatri Majumdar’ YouTube channel features poets and musicians regularly. While Brown Critique Books has published a handful of mostly non-fiction titles over the past few years. Gayatri lives in Pondicherry, India and is associated with Sri Aurobindo Society, specifically handling the publication of books, eBooks and audiobooks (AuroPublications).