POETRY AND TRANSLATION
Books
XXL
In XXL, Aditya Shankar explores the trails of contemporary relations, fractured across layers of being: metals, human, animals, and memory. He explores the love between waterfall and the electric bulb, cafe and the cycle, chair and orgasm, explorer and fruit boring worm, jeans and dying rivers. If the poems in this collection are imagined as a singular narrative, an eye at the urban balcony opening to wilderness is the midpoint. It cannot spot either the hooting owl or the factory sounding the siren, but together they construct the voice of a new urban god residing in a designer city beneath a designer sky. The voice we encounter in Aditya Shankar's XXL is direct, zany, and angry. The longing for anonymity renders it loud in the reader's mind: “I'm the seed of the fruit, the bug saves for the last.
Party Poopers
Aditya Shankar's second book, Party Poopers (2014, AuthorsPress), is a collection of 50 poems that he has authored and published in various international journals during the last decade. The collection represents the work of an author who attempts to capture the emotions of a world in transition, detailing the subtleties of everyday life and observing life as it happens around him, rejoicing both the rise and fall of the small and the beautiful.
After Seeing
After Seeing (2006, IFFT) is a poetic response to the works of:
- Alexander Sokurov
- Kim Ki Duk
- Mohsen Makhmalbaf
- Satyajit Ray
- Majid Majidi
- Giuseppe Tornatore
- Ingmar Bergman
- Vittorio De Sica
- Walter Salles
- Charlie Chaplin
- Roman Polanski
- Akira Kurosawa
- John Abraham
- Krzysztof Kieslowski
- Bernard Rapp
- Michael Radford
- Sergei Parajanov
- Andrei Tarkovsky
The book includes illustrations by KM Madhusudhanan, with forewords by
Tiny Judges Shall Arrive
A volume of English translations of KG Sankara Pillai's poems, edited and translated by Aditya Shankar, along with translations by K. Satchidanandan, C.S. Venkiteswaran, Prema Jayakumar, K.A. Jayaseelan, Bindu Krishnan, R. Viswanathan, O.T.J. Menon, and K. Raghavan Pillai.
Introductions by Basil Fernando and C.S. Venkiteswaran.
Daivam Animation Padicha Kaalathu
Debut Malayalam collection that includes 75 poems written between 2006 and 2021.
