Under the Apple Boughs (Poems)

Santosh Bakaya is a writer who is fast becoming the most popular in Indiain carrying on the tradition of a kind of English writing that takes in itsscope classic writers of the Victorian age primarily and also writers inIndia like Bond and Narayan. She is amazingly prolific and in this book Under the Apple Boughs, which isanother sojourn into poetry by her, right from her dedication of it to thepeople of Accra, Ghana, to the quote from Dylan Thomas and the Dylanpoem prefacing it, down to every poem in it, divided into four sections, itis a lovely read. The sections are Memory Shards, Crippled Rhyme, Nature Sings aSymphony and O Africa. Each section is powerful and shows her growingin each book in power, range and width. She is becoming colossal and thetime when she is prescribed to be read is not faraway.The best way to enjoy her is to read her properlyand this book may be the right one to start with,as with each book she grows into being a betterwriter than in the previous one. - Dr A.V. Koshy : Academician, fiction writer, essayist, critic, poet, anthologist