Smruti Divate; Hemant Divate; Arundhathi Subramaniam. Pic Courtesy/Instagram

Over the two-day festival, the team will release eight new books. Along with launches and discussions, the schedule includes readings by nearly 50 renowned poets and writers including Arundhathi Subramaniam, Jerry Pinto, Ranjit Hoskote, Mustansir Dalvi, Sachin Ketkar, and others. Look forward to readings from Marathi poetry and Latin American poetry. Speaking about the latter, Hemant reveals, “After the inaugural speech by Ashok Vajpeyi, the Latin American Poetry segment will feature Victor Rodriguez Núñez [Cuba], Katherine Hedeen [The USA], Dulce Chiang [Mexico], Rei Berroa [Dominican Republic], in conversation with Subhro Bandopadhyay.” The next day, there will be a dedicated discussion on Maltese poetry with Sampurna Chattarji and Adrian Grima.

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Visitors can also attend the two-hour-long Mumbai Poetry Jam, including a coffee break in between, with 12 city-based poets reading their works. Another prominent highlight includes a new Diwali issue of the Divates’ AbhidhaNantar Marathi magazine that was founded in 1998, which will include prose, poetry and criticism.

Mustansir Dalvi

On celebrating two decades, the team hopes to open its doors to younger folks and students attending the festival and introduce to them the rich reading material available. “We are a small publishing house, so to complete 20 years is a big milestone. We have attempted to be consistent in our work highlighting unique voices and the different ways in which they write; the poets we published have written excellent poetry,” the founders sign off. 

On: January 5 to January 6; 8.45 am to 6.10 pm
At: The Glamour Banquet Hall, Hotel Bawa International, Nehru Road Extension, Vile Parle East
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