Chandran nair poem

His collected poems, Reaching For Stones, was published by Ethos Books in Nair’s fiction won The New Nation Singapore Short Story Writing contest in and has .

Thanks for your interest in this title. Unfortunately, we have retired this title to the vault. Please check out other recommended titles below! Archival copies of this title are available at the National Library Board. View sample pages. The poems in this collection represent two volumes of poetry, Once the Horsemen and Other poems and After the Hard Hours, This Rain as well as poems since published in journals and anthologies in many countries and not collected into book form.

Chandran Nair ( – 18 September ) was a poet, director, and mediator at UNESCO.

They provide an interesting glimpse into the post colonial literature in English of Singapore and Malaysia. He focuses not on the fancifulness of each individual text on the paper but the complexity of weaving each line and stanza to form a neatly stitched fabric of written communication, syntax and rhythm. The poems shaped under his careful craftsmanship are accessible to the average reader; yet elaborate enough to satisfy a literary enthusiast.

Chandran Nair allows his readers to sneak a glimpse of his private life, making the book an extremely intimate experience Reaching for Stones: Collected Poems — , might just be the book that will cause strangers to poetry to fall in love with the English language all over again. About the Book dragon. Shortlisted for the Singapore Literature Prize for Poetry parsetreeforestfire is a bilingual book of poetry in which poems in Singlish occupy one side of the book, and poems in English on the o At home with loneliness and passing encounters, can we be familiar with another or even ourselves?

Does love outweigh the uncertainty of its memory? In his third and latest coll Giving Ground refers to an act of yielding, or compromise—an active passivity, not unlike the act of writing itself.