A Bus Called Mr Nice Guy (2005)

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

1. Mysore:
   • - Timekeeper to the nation
   • - Black eyebrows nose
2. Bangalore (i):
   • - It was waiting for me
   • - Is it on the outside?
3. Bangalore (ii):
   • - Soon to be full six
   • - Self-conscious in a chair
4. Pondicherry:
   • - Long live classical divine Tamil
   • - As crêpes they’re crap
5. Thanjavur:
   • - Always in a crowd
   • - Put that pen away
6. Madurai:
   • - Once is never enough
   • - Not knowing where we’re going
7. Kodaikanal:
   • - Van Allen Hospital
   • - Black cow lies in the road
8. Kodai / Kanyakumari:
   • - Is this going to stay
   • - They like to see me writing
9. Cape Comorin:
   • - The deer doesn’t enter
   • - He is not a man
10. Trivandrum:
    • - They can make anything
    • - Haunted eyes
11. Kathakali:
    • - A lot of action
    • - This is my first
12. Varkala:
    • - Meine Damen und Herren
    • - The tank’s refilled
13. Quilon / Alleppey:
    • - No-time the expanse
    • - Helping the Down Trodden
14. Fort Cochin:
    • - Harbour full of islands
    • - How do you like Kochi?
15. Ernakulam:
    • - Human contact
    • - Do I exaggerate?
16. Kochi / Bangalore:
    • - Light on the tracks
    • - One’s the buffoon
17. Bangalore / Panjim:
    • - The hooded horror
    • - Sophie Marceau
18. Panjim:
    • - Fishermen
    • - Inside the cabin
19. North Goa:
    • - I’ve caught up with myself
    • - Palolem Vagatur
20. Madgaon:
    • - Is it the moment?
    • - Ahead of myself
21. Madgaon / Bombay:
    • - White herons taking flight
    • - Life must go on
22. Bombay:
    • - That is the biggest
    • - I can laugh about it now
23. Auckland:
    • - New construction Amcare
    • - An alien species
24. 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]

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photograph: Jack Ross
(Bangalore, India - 22/1/02)

Reviews & Comments:

1. 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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