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'Is it flowers? Women plait them into their hair; truckies flower their driving-cabins for long dusty journeys...
'Is it colour? Emerald green ricefields; or the sun's gold flare on an egret's wing as it rises? Is it the yellow of mustard flowers, or the gaudy spectrum of a street festooned with movie posters? Is it Varanasi - the country's spiritual heart, some say - where pilgrims dunk themselves in the great Ganges River; or Tirupati, pilgrimage place of the south, a thousand steps up a mountain?
'Or is it Arunachala, also in the south, where the sage Ramana Maharshi taught "self inquiry"? (Ask, he said, who inquires?) If Ramana's "self inquiry" suggests a meditator's silence, it may also be relevant to ask, "Who sings?", since music and song permeate India.
'The voice of Lata Mangeshkar, honoured and revered playback singer of over five thousand Indian films, seems to express the soul of India. These poems attempt a tribute. The poet, short-story writer and novelist Vicki Viidikas pitchforked Kerry Leves into India. Together they travelled down, up and across the country. They didn't do it "posh". Out of the travelling came these poems of Kerry's: an outsider's inside journey.' (Publisher's blurb)
Contents
- Himachal Morningi"Shoeless", single work poetry
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
Works about this Work
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Ali Alizadeh; of Barry Scott,ed., Vicki Viidikas : New and Rediscovered, and Kerry Leves, A Shrine to Lata Mangeshka
2011
single work
review
— Appears in: Long Paddock , vol. 70 no. 3 2011;
— Review of New and Rediscovered 2010 selected work poetry prose short story ; A Shrine To Lata Mangeshkar 2007 selected work poetry -
A Diversion on the Technical Side : A Good Free Verse Poem and a Good Contemporary Sonnet
2010
single work
review
— Appears in: Famous Reporter , no. 41 2010; (p. 77-82)
— Review of A Shrine To Lata Mangeshkar 2007 selected work poetry -
Brieflings
2010
single work
review
— Appears in: Famous Reporter , no. 40 2010; (p. 106-110)
— Review of Death and the Motorway 2008 selected work poetry ; Postcards from the Asylum 2008 selected work poetry ; The Other Way Out 2008 selected work poetry ; A Shrine To Lata Mangeshkar 2007 selected work poetry ; Therapy Like Fish : New and Selected Poems 2008 selected work poetry ; Slow Skipping 2008 selected work poetry -
Kristin Hannaford Reviews A Shrine to Lata Mangeshkar by Kerry Leves
2009
single work
review
— Appears in: Mascara Literary Review , June no. 5 2009;
— Review of A Shrine To Lata Mangeshkar 2007 selected work poetry -
Take Me to the River
2008
single work
review
— Appears in: Long Paddock , no. 3 2008;
— Review of Erasure Traces : Collected Works, Volume 2 2008 selected work poetry ; A Shrine To Lata Mangeshkar 2007 selected work poetry
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Take Me to the River
2008
single work
review
— Appears in: Long Paddock , no. 3 2008;
— Review of Erasure Traces : Collected Works, Volume 2 2008 selected work poetry ; A Shrine To Lata Mangeshkar 2007 selected work poetry -
Kristin Hannaford Reviews A Shrine to Lata Mangeshkar by Kerry Leves
2009
single work
review
— Appears in: Mascara Literary Review , June no. 5 2009;
— Review of A Shrine To Lata Mangeshkar 2007 selected work poetry -
Brieflings
2010
single work
review
— Appears in: Famous Reporter , no. 40 2010; (p. 106-110)
— Review of Death and the Motorway 2008 selected work poetry ; Postcards from the Asylum 2008 selected work poetry ; The Other Way Out 2008 selected work poetry ; A Shrine To Lata Mangeshkar 2007 selected work poetry ; Therapy Like Fish : New and Selected Poems 2008 selected work poetry ; Slow Skipping 2008 selected work poetry -
A Diversion on the Technical Side : A Good Free Verse Poem and a Good Contemporary Sonnet
2010
single work
review
— Appears in: Famous Reporter , no. 41 2010; (p. 77-82)
— Review of A Shrine To Lata Mangeshkar 2007 selected work poetry -
Ali Alizadeh; of Barry Scott,ed., Vicki Viidikas : New and Rediscovered, and Kerry Leves, A Shrine to Lata Mangeshka
2011
single work
review
— Appears in: Long Paddock , vol. 70 no. 3 2011;
— Review of New and Rediscovered 2010 selected work poetry prose short story ; A Shrine To Lata Mangeshkar 2007 selected work poetry
Awards
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cIndia,cSouth Asia, South and East Asia, Asia,