From the Author of Illiterate Heart (winner of the PEN Open Book Prize) , a brilliant new collection of poems treading themes of migration, war,  (+)

You are the drop and the ocean.

You are kindness, you are anger, You are sweetness, you are poison.

Do not make me more disheartened.

You  (+)

When love beckons to you follow him

Though his ways are hard and steep.

And when his wings enfold you, yield to him,

Though  (+)

'Listen carefully,

Neither the Vedas Nor the Qur’an Will teach you this:

Put the bit in its mouth,

The  (+)

‘Listen carefully,

Neither the Vedas Nor the Qur’an Will teach you this:

Put the bit in its mouth,

The saddle on  (+)

In the melody that is heard all day long, In the teeming city and in nature's wilderness, In all these notes I have lost myself.' Honoured at a public  (+)