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1 The Pilgrimage : A Cross Cultural Discourse between Bishnupada Ray and Dominic Symes Dominic Symes , Bishnupada Ray , 2022 single work essay
— Appears in: Teesta Review : A Journal of Poetry , November vol. 5 no. 2 2022; Editor's note:

 For this collaboration, each poet initially sent three poems to the other, after which they wrote new poems responding to those received. This article presents the initial poems, followed by the responses, followed by reflective commentaries in which each poet discusses their experiences of and learning through this creative and dialogic process.

The work presented here redevelops materials previously published in TEXT: Journal of Writing and Writing Courses special issue number 60 (https://textjournal.scholasticahq.com/article/23520-sites-and-citations). The previously-published work has been reconsidered and reframed in the light of more recent social, political, and historical developments, particularly those related to the ongoing impact of COVID-19 and the global climate crisis.


 
1 Mystic River i "that melody of the flute", Bishnupada Ray , 2022 single work poetry
— Appears in: Teesta Review : A Journal of Poetry , November vol. 5 no. 2 2022;
1 Purpose i "the offseason swarms of bees", Bishnupada Ray , 2022 single work poetry
— Appears in: Teesta Review : A Journal of Poetry , November vol. 5 no. 2 2022;
1 Pret Shila (The Stone for the Spirits yet to Attain Liberation), Gaya, Bihar, Dusshera 2012 i "the steep flight of steps on this ancient hill", Bishnupada Ray , 2022 single work poetry
— Appears in: Teesta Review : A Journal of Poetry , November vol. 5 no. 2 2022;
1 Rite of Passage i "this stony mythological passage", Bishnupada Ray , 2022 single work poetry
— Appears in: Teesta Review : A Journal of Poetry , November vol. 5 no. 2 2022;
1 Udaigiri Caves, Vidisha i "these caves were the home", Bishnupada Ray , 2020 single work poetry
— Appears in: TEXT Special Issue Website Series , October no. 60 2020;
1 Prick i "in that enchanted grotto temple", Bishnupada Ray , 2020 single work poetry
— Appears in: TEXT Special Issue Website Series , October no. 60 2020; Teesta Review : A Journal of Poetry , November vol. 5 no. 2 2022;
1 Under the Tropic of Cancer i "the journey commences", Bishnupada Ray , 2020 single work poetry
— Appears in: TEXT Special Issue Website Series , October no. 60 2020;
1 Festival of Light i "when the town wore light", Bishnupada Ray , 2020 single work poetry
— Appears in: TEXT Special Issue Website Series , October no. 60 2020; Teesta Review : A Journal of Poetry , November vol. 5 no. 2 2022;
1 PretShila (The Stone for the Spirits yet to Attain Liberation) i "the steep flight of steps on this ancient hill", Bishnupada Ray , 2020 single work poetry
— Appears in: TEXT Special Issue Website Series , October no. 60 2020;
1 Rite of Passage i "this stony mythological passage", Bishnupada Ray , 2020 single work poetry
— Appears in: TEXT Special Issue Website Series , October no. 60 2020;
1 Sites and Citations Dominic Symes , Bishnupada Ray , 2020 single work essay
— Appears in: TEXT Special Issue Website Series , October no. 60 2020; 'This collection of poems is a gesture of cross-cultural response that seeks to explore the relationship between place and displacement in the work of two poets, Bishnupada Ray from North Bengal, India and Dominic Symes from Adelaide, Australia. Ray’s poetry examines topography as the evidence of scarring, a demonstration of the pain of displacement. Pilgrimage is a strong link between the work of Ray and Symes, with both poets documenting their experience of travel to sites of cultural significance. Symes’ poetry shows the possibility for sites to represent a literary inheritance, tracing how poetry is able to be written into and respond to the surface of painting through ekphrasis. Irony is an important tool for both poets in approaching the spectre of colonialism and its ongoing legacy. Ray’s poetry examines the full force and significance of geography as an insight into the nature of human domination and oppression, an insight that uncovers the politics of difference in the conventional binaries like mind and body, the spiritual and the physical, and this notion of contrast (a concept held up in the light of its opposite) returns in Symes’ poetry through the image of a ‘Black Mirror’. The dark truths uncovered in these poems speak to the urgency experienced by the citizens of two countries dealing ineffectively with the climate crisis, to suggest that the suffering inflicted upon the earth is felt equally by the people who inhabit it.' (Publication abstract)
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