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Twilight Language

Vinita Agrawal

US $17.60

US $22.00

2022/11

9789888492923

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書籍簡介

人文社科 > 人類學/民族學

Twilight Language is literally speaking crepuscular: looking at dimness. In these poems, language looks intentionally at the dimness of the pandemic era, the twilight faced by planet earth in the face of the raging climate crisis and the regular existential questions that seemingly are grappled with on a daily basis. Twilight language seeks also to be a conduit of hope and a better tomorrow; a visage of the poet’s experiences in the vast universe we all inhabit.

作者簡介

Vinita Agrawal

VINITA AGRAWAL is an award winning poet, an editor, translator and curator of literary events, based in Indore, India. Her poetry collections to date are: Two Full Moons (Bombaykala Books, 2018), The Silk Of Hunger (AuthorsPress, 2015), The Longest Pleasure (FinishingLinePress. 2014), and Words Not Spoken (Brown Critique, 2013). Individual poems have appeared in Mascara Review, Human Obscura, The Global South, Amphibian, Fox Chase Review, Indian Quarterly, Asian Cha, Tiger Moth Review and Punch Magazine, among many others. She was joint recipient of the Rabindranath Tagore Literary Prize 2018 and winner of the Gayatri GaMarsh Memorial Award for Literary Excellence, USA, 2015. She was awarded a prize in the Proverse Poetry prize 2018 and achieved special mention in the Hawkers Prize 2019. Her poems have twice won first prize at Hour of Writes. She won the Wordweavers Poetry contest in 2014 and first prize in the Architectural Poetry Competition, 3rd Cycle – Improvisation 2021. Her work was shortlisted for the inaugural Dipankar Khiwani Memorial prize 2021. Vinita edited Open Your Eyes (Hawakal)—an anthology on climate change—and the memoire-anthology, Nazki: The poet from Kashmir (A tribute to Mir Ghulam Rasool Nazki) (Ink Links, 2021). She co-edited the Yearbook of Indian Poetry in English (Hawakal, 2021, 2022) and is Poetry Editor with Usawa Literary Review. She has curated literary events for PEN@Prithvi, Mumbai and for Ruminating Poetry on the Kritya online platform. Vinita was featured in a documentary on twenty women poets from Asia, Deepest Uprising, directed by Huang Ming-Chuan, produced in Taiwan, and released in 2021. More information at: https://pavilion.taicca.tw/portfolio-item/2021_cannes_30/ . Agrawal is on the Advisory Board of the Tagore Literary Prize and on the Global Judging Panel of the SheInsprawrds. She is a keen birder and an amateur photographer.

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Proverse publishes internationally from Hong Kong mainly high quality literary and general titles (novels, novellas, single author short story and poetry collections, poetry anthologies, biography and autobiography), also some travel, sport, young author, mixed genre, educational and academic works, and edited historical source materials. Proverse authors include local and international authors, native speakers of English as well as non-native speakers. Topics and settings vary between local and international. Publication modes are paperback, hardback, ebook and audiobook. Most books are in the English language, including translations into English. A number are in Chinese, and a couple in Italian, a few are bilingual (English/Chinese; English/Italian). Several titles received publication support from Hong Kong Arts Development Council and other cultural bodies in Hong Kong and elsewhere.In 2008, Proverse established theannual international Proverse Prize for unpublished book-length non-fiction, fiction or poetry submitted in English. In 2016, Proverse launched theannual international Proverse Poetry Prize for a single poem submitted in English. Both prizes open for entries no later than 7 May each year (closing date 30 June). Entries to both prizes are invited from anywhere in the world and are open to all over eighteen years old, whatever their nationality, residence or citizenship. Writers and poets from Hong Kong and many countries in the world participate. Winners have been both local and international.Beginning in 2009 and continuing, Proverse organises in central Hong Kong a Spring and an Autumn literary event, open to the public. In recent years, a parallel event, available internationally, is shown on Youtube.Of the titles published by Proverse, several have attracted a Preface or advance appreciation from figures of international reputation. Two Proverse authors have been best sellers, one (Peter Gregoire) in Hong Kong and the other (Nicholas Binge) in Spain.Further informationWebsite: htt[s://www.proversepublishing.comGillian Bickley, ‘The Proverse Prize, Journal of Postcolonial Writing, Vol 59, 2023 Issue 1. https://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/TKVG8HZSZWX6R4CUJUKM/full?target=10.1080/17449855.2022.2101653Proverse titles page:https://cup.cuhk.edu.hk/ProversehkProverse Autumn Reception 2022 video (3rd edit): https://youtu.be/9L0L0AY6NGQProverse Youtube channel: youtube.com/@ProversePublishing