© Rochelle Potkar | Powered by The anthology ‘Witness: The Red River Book of Poetry of Dissent’ is out! Edited by Nabina Das and published by Red River, it possesses the work of 250 poets. [My poem ‘Mask’ features in it.]
Says critic Nirupama Dutt, “Words reach out with a rare rage, urgency, indignation, and angst as poets turn witness to dissent across the length and breadth of the sub-continent in contemporary poetry in this colossal anthology. Penned in different languages and touching a wide range of subjects, words rise out of the despair to mark a dissent with the scheme of things. These words are not mere words but the anguish and despair of a people with whom poetic dissent has been a way of life for thousands of years.”