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    The Bangalore Set
    The Bangalore Set
    The Bangalore Set
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    The Bangalore Set

    By Kathryn Hummel

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    30 days—1 city.

    'The Bangalore Set' was created when Australian writer Kathryn Hummel, a resident at the Kena Artists' Initiative, began writing a poem a day for thirty days on the complex beast of Bangalore. A tribute to her temporary home, the chapbook brilliantly captures the author's observations and experiences of the city's diversity, splendour and squalor.

    Launched at Kena in October 2015, 'The Bangalore Set' has so far charmed and provoked its readers. This ebook was created to satisfy the demands of poetry lovers beyond Bangalore and transport them to the city's streets, wherever they happen to be in the world.

    Author Bio
    Kathryn Hummel is the author of 'Poems from Here', 'The Bangalore Set' and the forthcoming 'Broken Lines: Writings from a Disrupted Lifetime in Bangladesh'. Her diverse, award-winning poetry, fiction, non-fiction and photography has been published and performed throughout Australia, New Zealand, the UK, the US and Asia, often in collaboration with musicians and fellow writers. Throughout her travels, Kathryn has completed a PhD for her research in narrative ethnography and has been a writer in residence with Australian Poetry, Forever Now, 1ShanthiRoad and, most recently, the Kena Artists’ Initiative in Bangalore. Her website www.kathrynhummel.com doubles as a logbook.

    Praise for Kathryn's work
    Kathryn Hummel is a poet and a humanist, interested in the varied spectrum of human culture. She is as much at home in Australia as in a number of other countries; and she has a particular fondness for Bangladesh, whose physical and social landscape has inspired/provoked much of her poetic output. Her poems are sensitive responses to the human condition as she sees it, and strike a nice balance between subjective elements and objective realities observed from unusual angles. They belong to the new global literature that is slowly taking shape before our eyes.
    —Kaiser Haq, University of Liberal Arts Bangladesh

    These poems gracefully combine poignant cultural observation with a sense of deep empathy. Hummel’s pleasure in language and ability to peel back the layers of perception conveys a potent sense of place and cross-cultural observation that is both insightful and refreshingly free of judgement.
    —Rachael Mead, 'The Sixth Creek'

    Reading Hummel offers that pleasing sense of getting to know a writer, and making that possible is her great honesty concerning the human condition...If the expression here were described as confessional it would limit the perception of its scope, since that word seems tainted by those who have objected to confessionalism, and sometimes for good reason. Perhaps a better word would be admission – especially since that has another meaning for access, accessibility and permission.
    —Owen Bullock, 'foam:e'

    In 'Poems from Here' Kathryn Hummel engages the reader in complex and subtle questions about desire, loss, and hope where the limits of language and love are inevitable and ineffable. Each poem sings with an evocative call for living well in the world. Each poem lingers in the liminal spaces between the erotic and the exotic, the eclectic and the electric, the enigmatic and the energetic. These poems are 'from here', but they tirelessly interrogate the location of 'here': just where is 'here'? In 'Poems from Here', 'here' is always located in the heart, written deeply and vulnerably in the wide expansive world. These poems are fired in the memory and imagination where longing often challenges, even sometimes defeats, the desire for belonging; these poems acknowledge the mystery of living in language while insisting on finding a fierce, unflinching wisdom for leading the way.
    —Carl Leggo, The University of British Columbia

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherKathryn Hummel
    Release dateDec 31, 2015
    ISBN9781310611933
    The Bangalore Set
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    Kathryn Hummel

    Australian writer and researcher Dr Kathryn Hummel is the author of Poems from Here (2014), The Bangalore Set (2015) and the forthcoming Broken Lines: Writings from a Disrupted Lifetime in Bangladesh. Her diverse poetry, photography, fiction and non-fiction has been published and performed throughout Australia (Cordite Poetry Review; Meanjin; Tincture Journal; Transnational Literature), New Zealand (Blackmail Press), the UK (The Letters Page; Bradt Guide to Bangladesh), the US (PopMatters; Quiet Shorts), and Eastern (How Does One Dress to Buy Dragonfruit?), Western (The Gulf Times) and Southern Asia (Himal SouthAsian; Six Seasons Review; Muse India; Four Quarters Magazine). Following a period in Bangladesh as a development work volunteer, Kathryn returned to Dhaka to undertake field research in narrative ethnography, the focus of her PhD in Social Sciences from the University of South Australia. Kathryn’s work cuts across boundaries of genre, media, discipline, culture and geography. In late 2014 she toured Bangladesh and India with Poems from Here, collaborating with musicians and fellow writers in performance; she has presented her research and writing at university conferences, workshops, literary festivals, guest speaker sessions, art galleries and spoken word events. Kathryn’s work with the experimental Paper Monster Press in the Philippines led to her nomination for the 2013 Pushcart Prize; her poem ‘any form whatsoever’ (un. Magazine 2014) was translated to appear in the Finnish journal Tuli & Savu (2015). Within Australia, Kathryn has been a writer/artist in residence with the Cafe Poet program (2011), run by national writers’ organisation Australian Poetry, and with Vitalstatistix’s Forever Now project (2013). Within India, she has been a writer in residence at No.1ShanthiRoad (2015) and, most recently, was the first resident to work with the Kena Artists’ Initiative in Bangalore. Winner of the Dorothy Porter Award for poetry at the 2013 Melbourne Lord Mayor’s Creative Writing Awards, Kathryn was longlisted for the inaugural University of Canberra Vice-Chancellor’s International Poetry Prize in 2014.

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