Christopher Rollason

The selected poems of Satish Verma, under the title of BEYONDS & BETWEON, are already an impressive product of intercultural dialogue. Satish Verma, an Indian poet and Hindi native speaker here writing in English, traces a dark journey through a landscape not of this world - a burnt, stunted, desiccated inner landscape that in many ways recalls T.S. Eliot's Waste Land - and yet at the end, in a movement reminiscent of the Tagore of Gitanjali, welcomes the arrival of a transformative Guest, in an eminently Indian fashion. Christopher Rollason