Reviews

Not Springtime Yet

"... her work is absolutely extraordinary

. ...she has an amazing ability to handle historical and mythic material in ways that make them completely new "

Dennis Nurkse, Guggenhiem Fellow in Poetry

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Burning the candle all over

Burning the candle all over ---Sunday Herald Articulations, 2nd April, 2006 

‘ Chabria's work is exquisite…. Great work, that.'

--R Raj Rao, Maharashtra Herald, April 20th, 2005 

‘ 78 pages of extraordinary poetry…' 

--Lekshmy Rajeev, Literary Review, The Hindu, June 5th, 2005  

‘Sarukkai Chabria…swoops and dives between space and time…her poems speak for themselves, to the reader and to each other, deliberately and clearly.' 

-- Jane Bhandari, Biblio, April-March 2006  

…a poet who has shifted contemporary Indian English poetry to a different gear altogether…

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Dialogue and Other Poems edited by Keki Daruwalla, published in 2005 by Sahitya Akademi as part of its Golden Jubilee series imprint. Reprinted in March 2006.

'The poems of Priya Sarukkai-Chabria are passionate, sensuous and intelligent, full of energy and enterprise. They hold their dramatic shapes with grace and establish her as a poet to read and return to time and again.'

--George Szirtes, T S Eliot Memorial Poetry Prize Winner, 2004

…a poet who has shifted contemporary Indian English poetry to a different gear altogether…

A poet who is equally at ease with the Tamil Akam and Puram styles of the Sangham period and with the 16th century Keshavadasa who wrote poetry in Vernacular Hindi; with medieval Japanese court poetry and the georgic convention that developed in Italian poetry in the late 16th century, and who proves to be one of the strongest and surest voices of contemporary Indian English poetry…

Her poems leave one with the impression that there is not a single word one can substitute for what she wrote. Priya Sarukkai Chabria, rock solid in her artistic achievements and luminous about concepts that work behind aesthetic expressions.
She has certainly given contemporary Indian English poetry the much-needed impetus that can only be propelled by erudition and assimilation of different cultures.

---Sunday Herald Articulations, 2 nd April, 2006

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