PinnedMember-only‘The Saree Shop’ Review by Alan BakerLeafe Press — The below texted is pasted from Leafe Press website — https://www.littermagazine.com/2021/01/review-saree-shop-by-shringi-kumari.html // Get your copy from ‘The Saree Shop’ by Shringi Kumari or from the publishers: Speculative Books Review of ‘The Saree Shop’ by Shringi Kumari, pub. Speculative Books. 86pp. £7.99 — by Alan Baker Shringi Kumari is an…Poetry4 min readPoetry4 min read
Published in Kohl Rivers·Jan 4Member-onlyThe Serpent KingRecording an event that occurred on 31 Dec 2022 transitioning into 01 Jan 2023 Christmas holidays at our office started on 22 Dec 2022 and ran till 03 Jan 2023 I started my holidays working on a painting. This is a work I am doing on a kala cotton yardage…4 min read4 min read
Published in Kohl Rivers·Mar 1, 2022Member-onlyDovlatov and MohamediThis empty land that belongs to all of us — is adorned with two corner homes of these artists. One too cramped and the other too stark, yet both equally comfortable — equally disturbed. I am an intruder or a guest of these homes — for them it is all…Kohl Rivers4 min readKohl Rivers4 min read
Published in Kohl Rivers·Feb 18, 2022Member-onlyFloating SignageInspired by Nasreen Mohamedi — I hunt articles away from sentences. That is simply who I have become. I don’t care to address the sentences with the words they need but I cramp them with all I have swallowed. Unknown blue-grey film of a storm — thin and crossed over. …Poetry3 min readPoetry3 min read
Published in Kohl Rivers·Feb 13, 2022Member-onlyThe line of thoughtDay inspired by Nasreen Mohamedi — Lying loose in the white webs of duality. Turning in my spiralled drift, I find this leaf looking at me prompting where the line begins; however what stand out are strands of blackness that border the daylight of thought. The sunshine of words overload the expectation of the mind. The…Poetry2 min readPoetry2 min read
Published in Kohl Rivers·Feb 13, 2022Member-onlyDoorstepPoetry inspired by Nasreen Mohamedi — We are suspended in the empyrean Floating between white crevices of life At your doorstep is the song that pulls floating bodies to the floor Touch of land sends tremors of existence — The slender pain is a fine root spreading in water — giving water properties of earth My…Kohl Rivers2 min readKohl Rivers2 min read
Published in Kohl Rivers·Feb 13, 2022Member-onlyShringi and Vaishali in Nasreen’s studioby Vaishali Paliwal and Shringi Kumari I No we will not share what age and time she was here and what creative monuments she spent on shaping for years in her isolation, discipline and solitude, and what country she was from or what color was her skin, what languages she…Kohl Rivers4 min readKohl Rivers4 min read
Published in Kohl Rivers·Feb 13, 2022Member-onlyEchoPoetry inspired by Nasreen Mohamedi — Dots washed ‘The birth of a triangle’ As the concave crowds with pismires, she draws a white slope against life She solves space — over and over with a strand of her hair A line that shall birth the sterile desert and the reticent sea A circular melancholy assembles A…Kohl Rivers1 min readKohl Rivers1 min read
Published in Kohl Rivers·Feb 13, 2022Member-onlyDialogue between the figure and the symbol.by Vaishali Paliwal and Shringi Kumari The Figure: Symbol, I agree your intangible in-betweens with their mystery of thought and provocation fill my shaped moments with the possibility of what’s beyond this empty space I have been mounted in, space showcased for other by-passing Figures, but what else your gaps…Kohl Rivers4 min readKohl Rivers4 min read
Published in Soul & Sea·Feb 12, 2022Member-onlyThe U_familiarOur nib hits a snowball and the Himalayas turn blue. The thorn arms stretched across this window are grabbed by the same photographer who I left at this mountain floor. This span is the same, the poet decorated as its pillar, is the same. …Poetry1 min readPoetry1 min read
