First Edition: "Celestial" | Abhay K. in conversation with Katherine Schofield

First Edition: "Celestial" | Abhay K. in conversation with Katherine Schofield, launch by William Dalrymple
Samsung Galaxy Tab S9 Series Jaipur Literature Festival’s signature First Edition book launch presents ‘Celestial’ by Abhay K.
'Celestial' is a captivating love poem of 100 rhyming couplets, where the poet ardently pursues his elusive beloved across the universe. Exploring all 88 visible star constellations, the poem, adorned with exquisite illustrations by Abd al-Rah.mān al-S.ūfī, offers a delightful journey into the hidden mysteries of the cosmos. This session of the Samsung Galaxy Tab S9 Series Jaipur Literature Festival features Abhay K in conversation with Katherine Schofield. ‘Celestial’ is launched by Festival Co-Director William Dalrymple.
Abhay K. is a poet, editor and translator. He is the author of several poetry collections including Celestial and Monsoon and the editor of The Book of Bihari Literature among other books. His translation of the first Magahi novel Fool Bahadur has been published by Penguin India as a modern classic.
Katherine Schofield is a historian of Mughal India and Hindustani music based at King’s College London. Drawing on Persian, Hindi, Urdu and visual sources to tell stories about musical lives, she writes on sovereignty and selfhood, affection and desire, sympathy and loss, nature and the human, and power, worldly and strange.
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