Tag Archives: Arjun Bali

The Loser’s Club Is A Real Place And We Didn’t Even Get There

Posted on September 29, 2012 by W N Herbert

Delighted to post this image retrieved from Istanbul by Nia Davies, which seems a fitting way of recording the almost complete moribundity into which we, the Collected Losers, Losels and Loseurs of Adishakti, have fallen. Though, to be fair, it … Continue reading →

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Updatapam: where we are losing now

Posted on February 26, 2012 by W N Herbert

As the collapsing table of dubious poetic comestibles continues to rain rum upon the unwary in its second year of uncoordinated activities, I thought I’d just flash fry the News Fish with a series of unlikely and largely mendacious updates … Continue reading →

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Translation into french : three poems of indian poets published in “Terre à ciel” (Sampurna Chattarji, Meena Kandasamy, Arjun Bali)

Posted on July 31, 2011 by roselynesibille

A quick update to make this link live (Bill): http://terreaciel.free.fr/Voixdumonde/indiens.htm

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Arjun into Scots 2

Posted on March 6, 2011 by W N Herbert

This second piece by Arjun really spoke to me, and I started producing a version in India which I finished on getting back home. It seemed to want to move toward ballad, and when I said that to Arjun, he … Continue reading →

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Arjun into Scots 1

Posted on March 6, 2011 by W N Herbert

Here’s the first of Arjun’s poems in English (apologies about losing the centre margin!) then in Scots. I loved the teasing relation between his shopping list of necessities and the short, oblique commentaries/asides/non sequiturs. This piece we performed as a … Continue reading →

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February plus Rabbit plus Blue equals Start Again

Posted on February 9, 2011 by W N Herbert

Roselyne is just back from India and has sent me her translations. I’ll post them by author. (She also has even more even more magnificent photos over on Facebook – I’ll have to look into getting a widget to display … Continue reading →

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Forgive the Flies in Bambaiya

Posted on January 12, 2011 by arjun

When the invitation for the LAF workshop arrived i thought Hindi would be the one language i would go with. On day three, at Adishakti, while discussing ‘Dogs, Mobs and Rock Concerts’ with Sampurna i mentioned it might work well … Continue reading →

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