CapeElsewhere – Siddharth Dasgupta

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The draw of elsewhere skies, harbouring the mythologies and hopes and betrayals of our elsewhere lives. Lived across four distinct sections and fifty-two poems that dip often into the enigmas of Poorna, Paris, Calcutta, Isfahan, Bombay, Istanbul, and such, Cape Elsewhere is a love letter to the fragility and beauty of human beings; to the streets and the empires we know as home. To be read slowly, beneath the sapphire of elsewhere nights.

“Cape Elsewhere is a lyrical atlas of memory, movement, and longing; a poetic voyage across cities and centuries. Epic and intimate, these poems trace the ghost-maps of migration, the quiet footsteps of lives lived in transit, evoking the everywhere and nowhere we carry within us.” — Tishani Doshi, Dancer, mentor, and award-winning writer of Girls Are Coming Out of the Woods; Small Days and Nights