She placed her chair so gently on theground, so that it doesn’t make theslightest of sound, for he readhis poem, in that voice sheloved, that moment thesky was dim, thelight in hereye washim.
Evening in Tagore Park, May 2013: A Nonnet
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About the writer
Akhil Katyal. Akhil Katyal finished his PhD at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London in 2011. His first book of poetry 'Night Charge Extra' is forthcoming with Writers Workshop in June, 2015. In 2014, with Anannya Dasgupta, he co-edited 'This Unsettling Place: Readings in American Literature - A Critical Anthology' (Worldview Publications: New Delhi). He is currently based in Delhi where he teaches English literature.
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