Get ready for the twin poetry book launch of "Paper Asylum"by Rochelle Potkar and "A Clock in the Far Past"  by Sarabjeet Garcha on 23rd june, 6pm at AttaGalatta.The launch will be followed by readings and a discussion, with Samantak Bhadra, around the genre of prose poetry, Japanese poetry form of haibun, and the themes presented in the books, from existential to fantastical, conventional to supernatural, ephemeral to eternal.

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Author of The Arithmetic of Breasts and Other Stories and Four Degrees of Separation, ROCHELLE POTKAR is the alumna of Iowa’s International Writing Program (2015) and the Charles Wallace writer’s fellowship, University of Stirling (2017). Her prose has been performed on stages in Iowa and Portland, Maine. She was the winner of the 2016 Open Road Review short story contest for "The Leaves of the Deodar". Her poem "Cellular: P.O.W." was shortlisted for the 2017 Hungry Hill competition, Ireland, and "Ground Up" won third place at the David Burland Poetry Prize 2017. Her story "Chit Mahal (The Enclave)" appears in The Best of Asian Short Stories. Her poem "The Girl from Lal Bazaar" was shortlisted for the Gregory O’ Donoghue International Poetry Prize, 2018. She is editor of the Goan-Irish anthology Goa: A Garland of Poems, with Gabriel Rosenstock.

Rochelle is co-founder of Arcs-of-a-Circle Artists’ Residency, Mumbai. She acted in a small role in the Tamil feature-length film Taramani. Her poem "Skirt" has been made into a poetry film by Philippa Cousins for the Visible Poetry Project, 2018.



SARABJEET GARCHA is the author of four books of poetry, including Lullaby of the Ever-Returning (Poetrywala, 2012) and a collection in Hindi, besides two books of translations. He was on the Panel of Critical Readers for the third edition of Garner’s Modern American Usage (Oxford University Press, 2009) and recipient of a fellowship in Hindi literature (2013–14) from the Ministry of Culture, Government of India, under which he completed a comparative study of post-1990 Marathi and Hindi poetry.

His work has appeared in various online and print publications, including Modern Poetry in Translation, Right Hand Pointing, The Vocabula Review, Foundling Review, Indian Literature, The Dhauli Review, and the Hindi literary magazine Pahal. Sarabjeet is the chief editor at a publishing company and has lived in Delhi NCR since 2002.



SAMANTAK BHADRA's poems and reviews have been published in Rain Taxi, The Missing Slate, 40 Under 40, Recours au Poème, Knot Magazine and Taj Mahal Review, among others. He has founded a poetry project in Bangalore called The Sound of Poetry, which creates awareness about Indian English poetry, and conducts workshops for children and adults.