I, Lalla: The Poems of Lal Dĕd

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🗓️ 31 August 2020

⏱️ 58 minutes

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I, Lalla: The Poems of Lal Dĕd, translated by Ranjit Hoskote, is the subject of this episode of Backlisted. Joining John and Andy to discuss this modern rendering of the poetry (or 'vakhs') of the 14th-century Kashmiri saint and mystic poet Lal Dĕd (Mother Lalla), also known as Lalla or Lalleshwari, is the writer, dancer and poet Tishani Doshi. In addition John has been reading Hurricane Season, the acclaimed novel by the Mexican author Fernanda Melchor, while Andy discusses Summer by Ali Smith, the final instalment of her seasonal quartet.Timings: (may differ due to variable advert length)5'40 - Restaging the Past by UCL Press7'12 - Summer by Ali Smith14'00 - Hurricane Season by Fernanda Melchor20'28 - I, Lalla: The Poems of Lal Dĕd by Lalleshwari* To purchase any of the books mentioned in this episode please visit our bookshop at uk.bookshop.org/shop/backlisted where all profits help to sustain this podcast and UK independent bookshops.* For information about everything mentioned in this episode visit www.backlisted.fm*If you'd like to support the show, listen without adverts, receive the show early and with extra bonus fortnightly episodes, become a Patreon at www.patreon.com/backlisted Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	The We had a series of interesting scenic days out.
0:27.0	Yes. We went to one of the few advantages of a global pandemic
0:31.8	is you can go to places in August provided you book in advance and there isn't anyone there
0:37.4	because they have it's not an advantage for them but we went for instance we went to
0:41.6	great Dixter in Sussex, Christopher Lloyd's Garden,
0:44.9	in full bloom with about 10 other people there. It was absolutely beautiful.
0:50.4	It was spectacular, isn't it? And we went to Farley's house near Lewis,
0:54.4	which is where Roland Penrose and Lee Miller lived.
0:58.0	The house itself isn't open,
0:59.7	but the gardens and the gallery space is open.
1:03.0	Tishani where are you?
1:05.0	So I'm in Bichtinsa in the Veneto, Northern Italy.
1:09.0	And you've been in Umbria.
1:11.0	I've been in Umbria and just drove up today. Italy is strange because August is a big
1:18.3	holiday month is just fair Augusto so a lot of families on the move. We did a day trip in Tuscany to see some friends in
1:26.5	Sanjimiano. It was packed. So that whole thing of the tourists are not coming. I'm not sure because I think they are coming in August and
1:35.5	maybe it's not to the scale at which it usually is but it's it's busy because I think
1:41.0	Italians are on the move. It need to be. But yeah, now I'm back in Bichinsa, I can see the little
1:47.8	dolomites outside the window and different. Lovely.
1:53.0	Lovely.
1:54.0	So you don't know when you're going to get back to Tamil Nadu.
1:57.0	No, I'd like to go in maybe October, end of October,
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