Living Room: Poems English 2014

Ever since he published his first book of poems, A Guarded Space in 1981, the trajectory of Manohar Shetty's poetry has gradually shifted from the intensely personal to embrace and encapsulate a wider and increasingly fractious world. Using dovetailing internal rhythms and his trademark offbeat metaphors, Shetty, in this his seventh book of verse, interweaves a hard-won lightness of touch with sardonic humour and cutting irony to expose the scars of an iniquitous society, emerging, in the process, as a quiet but distinctive and resilient voice in contemporary English verse in India. This is a book to be savoured and treasured.