Two poems of mine are up in the Fall 2008 Hudson View Poetry Digest edited by Dr. Amitabh Mitra.
Amitabh Mitra is a Medical Doctor in a busy hospital in East London, South Africa. A widely published poet in the web and print, Amitabh has been hailed as one of the most popular South African poet writing in English today by the Skyline Literary Review, New York.
More about him here: http://poetsprintery.book.co.za/blog/
And here: http://www.amitabhmitra.com/
The poems are “Do You Remember Sister” and “Obsessed.” I will put them up here after a a reasonable break as the magazine has recently hit the stands.
By the way, a casual stroll through googledom threw up a review on the Love Anthology – Tonight – edited by Dr. Mitra, Victoria Valentine and Glory S. Franklin. The review is by Dr. Geoffrey Jackson, an established poet himself. I am quite flattered that he devoted a whole paragraph to my poems!
He wrote: “
Rumjhum Biswas has crafted two perfect poems. So gentle, tender, moments unhurried, on colored butterfly wings in Indian blue days of summer. ‘September Love’ is really a little time-beaten but started perhaps early. “We ate the first fruit / long before its time was due”. But that is not the situation at the present time “For this body / would love to yield forever / lay its graying head down / on your bosom and count the stars again.” ‘This is how you make me feel’ has the same sort of lilt of inexpressibly delicate imprint of an orchid that characterizes so indelibly beautifully Rumjhum Biswas’s poems. All we Westerners know what time is for, have we not a watch but “Time is what / we make of it when we gently awaken / from what has been into what will be…” It is perfect timing how the poem is rounded off with the words “you make me feel / so beautiful” It’s as if you heard it for the first time because the cliché has been so long delayed that it hits like a murmurous wave at our feet and even if it is for the millionth time, it is the first time we have ever heard the lines. “
http://poetsprintery.book.co.za/blog/2008/10/30/two-reviews-of-tonight/
