The Rapids

Yogesh Patel raids diverse areas of experience and many literatures to make a 'jazz of poetry'. These poems travel with a Freedom Pass and a crow-sharp eye through Greek, Indian, African and Chinese myth, via the error page and cryptocurrency, all the way to the milk round and disrupted ecologies. They play on connections and disconnections, acting as improvisations that bounce sound and light into the broken corners of the world. -Imtiaz Dharker To come across Yogesh Patel's poetry is like a door opening to the fresh light at the end of a dark corridor. There are poets of the east and poets of the west, but in this collection Patel shows that he is a poet of both sensibilities. In this way, the subtleties of Indian poetic form and tone are gently entwined with those of the English tradition to form a new, delicate and original utterance. Daring, sophisticated and playful - Patel's poetry is a calligraphy of the soul made visible. It is a rare achievement. -Steven O'Brien

Auteur

Yogesh Patel received an MBE for literature in the Queen's New Year Honours list 2020. Internationally celebrated, he edits Skylark and runs Skylark Publications UK as well as a non-profit Word Masala project to promote literature. Honoured with the Freedom of the City of London, he has LP records, films, radio, a children's book, fiction and non-fiction books, and three poetry collections to his credit. A recipient of many awards, Patel was Poet-of-Honor at New York University in April 2019. Among the many venues he has read in, are the House of Lords and the National Poetry Library. Patel's writing has appeared in many major literary journals, including PN Review, The London Magazine, Asia Literary Review, Under the Radar, Shearsman, IOTA, Envoi, Understanding, Orbis, The Book Review, and Confluence. He has also appeared on BBC TV and Radio, and in newspapers and magazines. Patel's work also features in The National Curriculum anthology, MacMillan, Sahitya Akademi, and numerous other anthologies across the world. He is currently a Poetry Editor at Ars Notoria and writes regular columns for iGlobal and Confluence. By profession, Patel is a qualified optometrist and an accountant. Author's Websites are: www.patelyogesh.co.uk and www.skylarkpublications.co.uk

Contenu

The Rapid: Cogito, ergo sum,Sweet worms, Kafka's Letters, Chappals, Luminosity, Hofstadter's Strange Loop, 9 out of 10 are men, Altitudinal hemianopia,The salmon run, An eco-warrior, Fireflies, Zen(i), Tr{oo}ping the Colour, Back to normal, It'll be Alright on the Night, A deflected ritual,A milkman's round,A theory of social distancing, Not an earth-apple, not a love apple, The cuffs and bangles, Clotho's tangled threads, The Book of us, Wife Eats Chilli, Lost conkers, Thali, Exquisite Corpse, S = 0, Arrangement, The Anger Management, Effects, The Mono Lake, A florid breakup, The uncertainty principle, All paradises can do with Wendy Cope, Not from Mars not from Venus they're Made in China, It's only a Paper Moon, What goes around, comes around, Restoration, The blank papers of Sadako's 1000 wishes of cranes, To write what a tree couldn't,The Galatea effect, Chicken George, Ego death, Bone farms, Politics of shearers, Lions in Trafalgar Square, A game of twigs, A turn of an hourglass, Internet down: Throbbers & Surdarshana Chakra, Just as well, 4th Earl of Sandwich didn't meet Anne Boleyn!, The Myth of Sisyphus: Camu, Wobbling-Belly Laughing Buddha, Retirement, A quest for art, MS, The optimist, Mautam, Kalinga War, Notes (1) The Rapid: A New Poetic Form, Notes (2) References,