From the Singing Bowl of the Soul

Fifty Poems is a volume of reflections on a myriad facets of life

From the Singing Bowl of the Soul: Fifty Poems is a volume of reflections on a myriad facets of life as they appear to the poet in fleeting glimpses or more sustained visions. These epiphanies (elliptical or extended as the case may be) emanate, for the most part from intuitive apprehensions or sensory perceptions, proceeding sometimes from the most mundane observations to unexpected discoveries. The speaker’s voice, often ironical, at times exasperated, though sometimes invested with a suppressed wonder is rarely effusive. While this collection has poems on time, art, changing relationships, love, loss, death and renewal it also carries oblique political and ideological conversations on national identity, forced immigration and the effects of colonial rule among other expressions of social consciousness. The book, on the whole, is expected to appeal to the general reader as well as the lover of poetry.