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The Atlas of Lost Beliefs
by Ranjit Hoskote
Part of our Arc International Poets series
Commenting on Hoskote's poetry on the Poetry International website, the poet and editor Arundhathi Subramaniam observes: "His writing has revealed a consistent and exceptional brilliance in its treatment of image. Hoskote's metaphors are finely wrought, luminous and sensuous, combining an artisanal virtuosity with passion, turning each poem into a many-angled, multifaced experience."
A wonderfully ambitious, sophisticated and charged
collection: a symphony of the sea in three great
movements. The first explores history, language,
geography, the Indian Ocean and colonization, with
Shakespearian echoes of The Tempest. Then comes
contemporary and personal human ‘traffic’ – and urban
alienation; and the third delves deeply into art. The
forms, exquisite lyrics, philosophical insights, prose
poems, epics with still moments of pure simplicity, are
as multiple and shape-shifting as water. An astonishing
achievement.
Professor of Poetry, King’s College, London,
author of Darwin – A Life in Poems and
The Mara Crossing
The poems in Ranjit Hoskote’s The Atlas of Lost Beliefs
are brilliant annotations on the giant landmass of
history. With wisdom and erudition in plenty and a
masterly grip on the quiet but lethal drama of verse,
The Atlas of Lost Beliefs is, on any measure, a major
achievement.
Poet and translator, author of
The Burning of the Books and Bad Machine
Pbk: 9781911469636
Ebk: 9781911469643
Published April 2020
