Routes
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Routes

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Routes

About this book

At the core of this debut collection is a question – what is worth holding onto?

Through poetic experiments that blend the academic and the artistic, Rhiya Pau queries complex characters and tender landscapes. Routes journeys from Ba's kitchen in Sonia Gardens to Independence hour in Delhi, across the pink shores of Nakuru, to meet a painter on Lee High Road.

Celebrating fifty years since her community arrived in the UK, Pau chronicles the migratory histories of her ancestors and simultaneously lays bare the conflicts of identity that arise from being a member of the East African-Indian diaspora. In this multilingual discourse exhibiting vast formal range, Pau wrestles with language, narrative and memory, daring to navigate their collective fallibilities to architect her own identity.

'[Routes]...holds up to the light the wisdom of the past, and asks what else is passed down along with it...a work of humane intelligence, formal experiment and linguistic verve' - Sarah Howe, Judge of Eric Gregory Awards 2022

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Information

Publisher
Arachne Press
Year
2022
Print ISBN
9781913665449
eBook ISBN
9781913665722
Topic
Literature
Subtopic
European Poetry
Index
Literature

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. Preface
  6. Roots I
  7. Oral Traditions I
  8. Bandhani
  9. Enough
  10. Homecoming
  11. Sightseeing
  12. From Madurai to Rameswaram
  13. The Highway Hunters
  14. Ride for Darjeeling
  15. Pilgrims
  16. At a Dhaba, Dahl is Frying
  17. Calling on Monsoon
  18. The Girl in the Water
  19. Inheritance
  20. Silverware
  21. Oral Traditions II
  22. Black Eyes
  23. On Lust:
  24. On Shame:
  25. saturday night fever
  26. Goddess
  27. Last Spring
  28. Five/Eight Thousand Miles Away
  29. Roots II
  30. Thought Experiments at Oriel
  31. Partition
  32. Conflict of Interest
  33. Kaliyug
  34. Entropy
  35. Author’s Note
  36. We Gotta Talk About S/kincare
  37. To Save the Planet: or To Send Your Kids to Private School: or After You Send Your Kids to Private School, but Before You Have Enough:
  38. Ode to Corelle
  39. Routes
  40. Mombasa Heat
  41. Sonia Gardens, 1999
  42. Sonia Gardens, 2004
  43. Sonia Gardens, 2011
  44. Dying
  45. Departure Lounge
  46. Eighty-Five in Dove Park
  47. Salutation
  48. Beyond
  49. Roots III
  50. Notes
  51. Acknowledgements