I’ll be participating as a guest in two events at Bookwallah, India’s first roving literary festival, which features five Indian and Australian writers travelling through India on a train. Please see their website for a full listing of events, and do attend. These are the two I am involved in:

 

Winds, currents and the elements of disguise: Antipodean and Indian poetry

November 15 2012, 8-9pm

Apparao Galleries, No. 7, Wallace Gardens, 3rd Street, Nungambakkam

India and Australia are two nations with a rich poetic history. Sudeep Sen, Sharanya Manivannan and Annie Zaidi bring poems from India, including the HarperCollins Book of English Poetry; Kirsty Murray and Benjamin Law bring some favourite poems from Australia to create a poetic conversation across the seas.

 

The Bookwallah Mini-writers Festival Finale

November 17 2012, 7-9pm

Aurodhan Gallery, 33 Rue François Martin, Kuruchikuppam, Pondicherry

The Bookwallah tour finishes three weeks of travel across India with a celebration of local and international stories and poems from our literary explorations of India. With special guests Sharanya Manivannan and Anuradha Majumdar.

 

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And finally, Prajnya’s 16 Days Campaign Against Gender Violence includes a poetry reading, “Not Silence, But Verse“, featuring Srilata Krishnan, L. Ramakrishnan and me.

Venue: Chamiers, New # 106, Old # 79, Chamiers Road, Chennai – 600028

Date and time: Thursday, 29 November, 6:30 p.m.-8 p.m.