Personal Effects

01 February, 2011

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Manohar Shetty

Doosra Press,

50 pages, R250

He marvelled as he read/The simile of

two cats/As ‘a pair of commas’./But

why did he also feel/A sense of regret?

A new collection of wistful, observant and beautifully crafted poems from a leading Indian English poet.

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