Book Details

• Publisher: Sahitya Akademi
• Language: English
• Pages: 272
• Cover: Paperback
• Author/Editor: K. Satchidanandan
• Edition: 2014
• ISBN: 9788126043484
• Dimensions: 21.5 cm x 14 cm (8.50 x 5.50 inch)
• Weight: 370 gm

About the Book

Songs from the Seashore is a unique international poetry anthology compiled for the IORA Poetry Festival organized by Sahitya Akademi in collaboration with the Ministry of External Affairs, Government of India. Edited by K. Satchidanandan, the collection brings together around two hundred poems by fifty poets representing eighteen countries from the Indian Ocean region.

The anthology celebrates the cultural diversity and shared human experiences of nations connected by the Indian Ocean. Through a wide range of poetic voices, the collection explores themes such as memory, migration, identity, longing, conflict, hope, cultural exchange, and the aspirations of people living across different societies and continents bordering the Indian Ocean.