Nostalgia unlimited

What one encounters in this slim volume is rare for a first book - a mature style, a confident voice, none of the fumbles of a younger poet's first book

How We Measured Time

Author: Sivakami Velliangiri

Publisher: Poetry Primero

Pages: 63

Price: Rs 200

Sivakami Velliangiri has the unique distinction of publishing her first book — the one under review — after having become a senior poet. (She has published a chapbook earlier.) “There was an intervention by the muses themselves,” she tells poet Michelle D’Costa in a recent interview about the publication process, adding: “All my friends expected a book of poems from me.” Velliangiri has been publishing in magazines and journals regularly since the late-1970s, but a book is another deal altogether, and the fact that it has been brought out