VODKA-BY-VOLGA POETRY BOOK

Vodka by the Volga: A Duo of Duelling Dulcimers & Daggers

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AVKoshy
VODKA BY THE VOLGA: A Duo of Duelling Dulcimers & Daggers is a chapbook of intense poems on Russian writers and literature and the country itself, not to mention their poetry, by two of the most noticed names in the world of Indian English poetry today, Dr Santosh Bakaya of Ballad of Bapu fame, and Dr Koshy AV whose co-authored poetry chapbook Wine-kissed Poems was an Amazon bestseller recently.

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Authors: Dr Santosh Bakaya and Dr Ampat Varghese Koshy
Format: Kindle Edition
File Size: 2582 KB
Published on: 11 October 2020

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VODKA BY THE VOLGA: A Duo of Duelling Dulcimers & Daggers is a chapbook of intense poems on Russian writers and literature and the country itself, not to mention their poetry, by two of the most noticed names in the world of Indian English poetry today, Dr Santosh Bakaya of Ballad of Bapu fame, and Dr Koshy AV whose co-authored poetry chapbook Wine-kissed Poems was an Amazon bestseller recently.

The poems contain a wide range of powerful emotions and refer or allude to the best in Russian poetry too, and is a must have for anyone who loves poetry. It is by turn historical, archetypal, emotional and philosophical and deeply revealing in its texture and feel of poetry that can affect the readers deeply, in that sense harking back to the Romantic.

The book of poems also has two excellent prose sections in a preface by Dr Bakaya and an afterword by Dr Koshy AV that are a delight to read, though from similar perceptions and persuasions, ideologically.

ABOUT SANTOSH BAKAYA

Santosh Bakaya – Book Writer India

Recipient of many national and international awards, academic, poet, essayist, novelist, biographer, editor, TEDx Speaker, creative-writing mentor, Dr Santosh Bakaya has been internationally acclaimed for her Poetic biography of Mahatma Gandhi, [Ballad of Bapu].Her Ted Talk on The Myth of Writer’s Block, is very popular in creative writing circles.

Some of her books are:
Where are the Lilacs? [Poetry]
Under the Apple Boughs [Poetry]
Songs of Belligerence [Poetry]

Flights from my Terrace [Personal Essays]
A Skyful of Balloons [Novella]
Bring out the tall Tales [Short stories with Avijit Sarkar]
Only in Darkness can you see the Stars [a Biography of Martin Luther King Jr]

Her popular column Morning Meanderings in LearningandCreativity.com e-magazine is now an e-book.

Her International Reuel award winning long, narrative poem, Oh Hark! which earlier figured in The Significant Anthology, is now a book with illustrations by Avijit Sarkar.

She is also the recipient of the Setu Award for excellence [2018] in the Individual category, for her ‘stellar contribution to world literature’, [Setu, bilingual Journal, Pittsburgh, USA], and the 1st Keshav Malik Award [2019] for her ‘entire staggeringly prolific and quality conscious oeuvre’.

Publisher : Blue Pencil (11 October 2020)
Language: : English
File size : 2584 KB
Simultaneous device usage : Unlimited
Text-to-Speech : Enabled
Screen Reader : Supported
Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
X-Ray : Not Enabled
Word Wise : Not Enabled
Print length : 56 pages

2 reviews for Vodka by the Volga: A Duo of Duelling Dulcimers & Daggers

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    Pooja Suresh –

    Beautiful book

    Dear Santosh Bakaya, thank you so much for this treasure. I am going to take my time to read this. But my one line for everybody is do not miss to buy this book it is made so affordable and accessible to all and don’t shy away to take a pen and a note to write down whatever you learn while you read because that is what I am going to do too? also have fun reading!!!! ❤️Thank you dear Ampat Koshy Ji and dear Santosh Bakaya Ji for this beautiful book. Thank you for making me buy this ❤️
    PS Do not miss the preface
    Also love the book cover it’s too cool!!

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    Vineetha Mekkoth –

    Sparkling, brilliant, innocent yet sensuous

    “There is something mystic about the power of love, for a person, for a country and it is this thread that you find running through the poems of this exquisite book. Dr Santosh Bakaya and Dr AV Koshy have together woven a fine tapestry of dreams that will take you to this land of snow, Vodka and the fabled Volga. I could sense the nostalgia for a country, for a time that was rich in literature, for the beauty of the human mind with its perfections and flaws that this literature portrayed, for the writers of this literature who have become immortal by their works. There is a sadness too in these poems for the Russia that can be found only in this literature of the past. The grand beauty of a land and people etched by the Russian masters come alive once again through these poems.

    As a child, I had been gifted a small book by my grandfather. It was Mumu by Turgenev. How I had cried as I read and reread the story. I still do. A sob rises unbidden even now when I think of it. The beauty and tragedy unparalleled. It is this spirit that has been captured in many of these poems by Dr Bakaya and Dr Koshy. Sparkling, brilliant, innocent yet sensuous these poems are. They pay worthy tribute to the great masters of Russian literature, music, art, to love, to loss of something intangible like freedom. A book that will paint for you the greatness that Russia once was..”

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'A review of “Vodka by the Volga”'
I just finished reading a collection of poems, with a unique name, “Vodka by the Volga: A duo of duelling dulcimers and daggers.” When I got the book, I thought I’d read it in one go. But after I read a few poems, I closed the book, for I did not want it to end too soon. I took time, dipping myself bit by bit, into these lyrical expressions. This book has Russia written all over it and that is what attracted me to it, other than the fact that it was written by two eminent writers, Dr Santosh Bakaya and Dr Ampat Koshy. At the very outset of my review, let me tell you the book is exquisite- from its title to its poetic texture.
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About the Author/Editor

Dr Koshy A. V. is an Assistant Professor at the Department of English at the College for Arts and Humanities for Girls, Jazan University, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. He has written, co-written or co-edited eight books of criticism and poetry to his credit with authors like A.V. Varghese, Gorakhnath Gangane, Angel Meredith, Madhumita Ghosh, Zeenath Ibrahim, Rukhaya MK and Bina Biswas and one of them 'A Treatise on Poetry for Beginners' was reprinted once as 'Art of Poetry.'

He is a Pushcart Poetry Prize nominee (2012) and twice Highly Commended Poet in Destiny Poets UK ICOP (2013, 2014) and he was thrice featured in Camel Saloon’s The Hump for best poem/editor’s pick and once for best poem in Destiny Poets UK Website. Even as a child he won the Shankar's international award for writing. He is a reputed critic and expert on Samuel Beckett besides being a fiction writer and theoretician. His last books were Wake Up, India: Essays for Our Times, co-authored with Dr Bina Biswas and Mahesh Dattani's Plays: Staging the Invisibles co-edited with Bina Biswas. Three more are on the way, namely The Significant Anthology he is editing with Reena Prasad, a collection of stories to be published by Lifi and a collection of poetry with Bina Biswas and Pramila Khadun.

He has edited or co-edited many books including A Man Outside History by Naseer Ahmed Nasir and Inklinks: An Anthology by Poets Corner and a novel for Lifi. He instituted the Reuel International Literary Prize in 2014 and runs an autism NPO with his wife Anna Gabriel. The first prize was given to Dr Santosh Bakaya. He administers with the help of others the literary group Rejected Stuff on Facebook. His poems have been studied in a research paper by Dr Zeenath Ibrahim and Kiriti Sengupta in Dazzling Bards and also translated into Hindi, Urdu, Gujarati,German and Malayalam.

He won World Bank’s Urgent Evoke and participated in European Union’s Edgeryders. He has been interviewed extensively. He has other degrees, diplomas and certificates to his credit besides his doctorate on Beckett. He attributes everything to God’s grace and the prayers and good wishes of his loved ones.

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