# Collected Works Volume 1: Hyderabad Quartet

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**Author:** Hoshang Merchant[⌊A sample cover of the book: azure blue handloom sari with gold embossed nameplate and lettering for the title and author's name. The border of the sari lines the right hand margin of the cover.⌉](https://writersworkshopindia.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/Collected-Works-Volume-1.jpg)
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Pages:** 312 **Year of Publication:** 2011 **Price:** HB Rs 350 **ISBN:** 978-93-
5045-012-3 (9789350450123)

_**About the Author**_
 Hoshang Merchant is India’s first openly gay poet. He has
published over 20 volumes of poetry with **Writers Workshop**, India, since 1989.
He is a respected Queer Theorist with three critical studies on the subject published
by national and international presses and has also published a study of Anais Nin
with **Writers Workshop** (_**In-discretions: Anais Nin**_). He translates from 
Urdu as well. He has been a professor of English at Hyderabad University for the
last 24 years.

_**About the Book:**_
 This collection comprises poems published in _**Stone to 
Fruit**_ (1989), _**Yusuf in Memphis**_ (1991), _**Hotel Golkonda**_ (1992) and _**
The Heart in Hiding**_ (1996). All 4 books were published by **Writers Workshop**.

_**Contents**_
 I. _Stone to Fruit_ 44 poems II. _Yusuf in Memphis_ 42 poems III.
_Hotel Golkonda_ 61 poems IV. _The Heart in Hiding_ 49 poems