POEMS FOR TRANSLATION

Blood Road is about the journey to Buchenwald concentration camp. A Dying Child is an angry poem dealing with the death of a tiny baby in Mother Theresa’s orphanage in Kolkata against the backdrop of Holi. By contrast, Lovers tells the triumphant story of passionate love in a dark and fearful mediaeval town in present day Puglia. An Evil Future returns us to the terrifying life awaiting another small child in Kolkata. After The Trojan War reminds us that nobody ever predicted the greatest horrors of history. The Bottle is about a disabled boy collecting plastic bottles on a beach in Orissa and selling them to a man who then re-fills them with dangerous water.