Manohar Shetty
Copper Coin,
59 pages, Rs. 120
Ever since the publication of Manohar Shetty’s first book more than three decades ago, the animal kingdom has been intrinsic to his poetry. Creatures great and small have long inhabited his work—from the “jiggling asterisk” of a spider and the “bowtie” of a bat to elephants “inlaid with their own ivory.” This collection gathers Shetty’s menagerie, culled from his fives volumes of poetry alongside new, unpublished poems.