A poetic account of a 1970s

overland journey to India and back,

with other poems and a story

related to the journey.

 

             

               

From London, through Europe, travel through

Turkey, Iran and Afghanistan, insights into the

‘grooming gang’ mentality in Pakistan, first sight

of India in Amritsar, Tibetan exiles in Dharamsala,

hitchhiking on the Grand Trunk Road,

by the river Ganges in Varanasi, Himalayan trekking

in Nepal, down South to Madras and Goa,

a return journey and readjustment to a

changed country after the oil crisis of 1973.

 

Recommended by the late great critic, teacher,

Booker Prize Chair and poetry analyst

and champion John Carey.

  

Plus poems on the journey’s aftermath,

including on The Beatles’ ashram in India,

Omar Khayyam, Osama Bin Laden, the

contrasting Moghul Emperors Akbar and Aurangzeb

– and concluding with a daft but cheery children’s story

about a heroic mouse who lives in Chennai station.

Listen to extracts here

 

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                                                ISBN number:  978-1-0683328-38