Places and Other Poems Mahadai Das the discovery that the agrarian

the discovery that the agrarian reform plan had handed the peasants largely uncultivable strips of rocky ground

In a former life he worked in advertising – he has been clean for over 13 years and now works with selected grassroots community organisations through his artist/activist promotions agency

fables and fragments of history of the Amerindian peoples of Guyana and the Caribbean

as well as the moral instability and unscaleable summits that today’s young people must face

translated by Peter Constantine

Places and Other Poems Mahadai Das the discovery that the agrarianCreator of the lightly fictionalized region of Wessex, where Reading features as Aldbrickham, Thomas Hardy was a poet for whom ideas of place played a central role in his work . In this new collection of his poems, each selected for its relation to a specific locale, and finely illustrated by Sally Castle, Hardys imagination appears most intensely engaged by connections between people and place. This latest offering from the classic poetry series of