Language for a New Century

Contemporary Poetry from the Middle East, Asia and Beyond

Edited by Tina Chang, Nathalie Handa, and Ravi Shankar

Language for a New Century celebrates the artistic and cultural forces flourishing today in the East, bringing together an unprecedented selection of works by East Asian, Middle Eastern, South Asian, and Central Asian poets as well as poets living in the diaspora. Some, such as Bei Dao, Mahmoud Darwish, Naomi Shihab Nye, and Michael Ondaatje, are acclaimed worldwide, but many more will be new to the reader.

Language for a New Century includes the poem proof by Rajinderpal S. Pal.

“A beautiful achievement for world literature.”—Nadine Gordimer

W. W. Norton (2008)

Desilicious

Sexy, Subversive, South Asian

Edited by The Masala Trois Collective

The collection explores the relationship between sensuality and culture, and how they can both complement and conflict with each other. They challenge colonial stereotypes of South Asian sexuality, represented by sexually repressed victims of arranged marriages or hypersexed inheritors of the Kama Sutra; they also explode existing notions of cultural “norms.”

Desilicious includes the poems tattoo, calcutta, trust, and splendour by Rajinderpal S. Pal.

Arsenal Pulp Press (2003)

Writing the Terrain

Travelling Through Alberta with the Poets

Edited by Robert M. Stamp

Take a trip through Alberta with some of Canada’s finest established and emerging poets as your guides. Writing the Terrain is the first anthology dedicated solely to the poetry of the Alberta landscape and cityscape, by authors who have travelled the main roads, back roads, and gravel roads of this vast province.

Writing the Terrain includes the poem trust by Rajinderpal S. Pal.

University of Calgary Press (2005)