Locomotifs and Other Songs

The collection is a brilliant adventure in lyricism and features poems exploring such diverse themes as love, nationhood, travels across three continents, politics, religion, colonial legacies and the sharp pains of a world in search of healing. In locomotifs and other songs, we are presented with a poet determined to create his own poetic signature, in the process drawing from eclectic literary traditions across time and space. Rendered in weighty and thoughtful diction, this collection presents the private and the public in a language that is both remarkably frank and audacious