Cover photograph: K Ramanathan / Cover design: Jack Ross
(Mumbai, India - 15/1/02)
A Bus Called Mr Nice Guy
Poems by Jack Ross
ISBN 0-473-10526-8
Auckland: Perdrix Press, 2005
[ii] + 50 pp. / [50 signed & numbered copies]
[out of print]
Map of South India: Matthew Kelly (2005)
CONTENTS
Letter to Gabriel White
- Mysore:
- - Timekeeper to the nation
- - Black eyebrows nose
- Bangalore (i):
- - It was waiting for me
- - Is it on the outside?
- Bangalore (ii):
- - Soon to be full six
- - Self-conscious in a chair
- Pondicherry:
- - Long live classical divine Tamil
- - As crêpes they’re crap
- Thanjavur:
- - Always in a crowd
- - Put that pen away
- Madurai:
- - Once is never enough
- - Not knowing where we’re going
- Kodaikanal:
- - Van Allen Hospital
- - Black cow lies in the road
- Kodai / Kanyakumari:
- - Is this going to stay
- - They like to see me writing
- Cape Comorin:
- - The deer doesn’t enter
- - He is not a man
- Trivandrum:
- - They can make anything
- - Haunted eyes
- Kathakali:
- - A lot of action
- - This is my first
- Varkala:
- - Meine Damen und Herren
- - The tank’s refilled
- Quilon / Alleppey:
- - No-time the expanse
- - Helping the Down Trodden
- Fort Cochin:
- - Harbour full of islands
- - How do you like Kochi?
- Ernakulam:
- - Human contact
- - Do I exaggerate?
- Kochi / Bangalore:
- - Light on the tracks
- - One’s the buffoon
- Bangalore / Panjim:
- - The hooded horror
- - Sophie Marceau
- Panjim:
- - Fishermen
- - Inside the cabin
- North Goa:
- - I’ve caught up with myself
- - Palolem Vagatur
- Madgaon:
- - Is it the moment?
- - Ahead of myself
- Madgaon / Bombay:
- - White herons taking flight
- - Life must go on
- Bombay:
- - That is the biggest
- - I can laugh about it now
- Auckland:
- - New construction Amcare
- - An alien species
- A B C
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Available:
Perdrix Press
6A Hastings Rd
Mairangi Bay
North Shore City 0630
Auckland
RRP: $NZ 20.00 [out of print]
Reviews & Comments:
- Raewyn Alexander. Takahe 57 (2006): 59.
Prose, poetry, observations and quotes conjure up through their vivid everyday otherness, a sense of travelling along with Ross through India ... This book speaks of travel, danger, poverty, oddities, commerce and friendship, and in its fractured elegance evokes a picture of one man’s experience in a land quite foreign to him.
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