# Collected Works Volume 3: Place/Name, A Sextet

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**Author:** Hoshang Merchant
 **Pages:** 244 **Year of Publication:** 2014 **Price:**
Rs 400 **ISBN:** 978-93-5045-082-6 (9789350450826)

_**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 retired from the University of Hyderabad after 25 years of teaching
English, in 2012.

_**About the Book**_
 This collection comprises poems published in _**Juvenilia**_(
2006), _**Alif/Alpha**_ (2006), _**Pondicherry Poems**_ (2005), _**Bombay, My Bombay**_(
2006), _**Goa!**_ (2007) and _**Shillong Suite**_ (2010). All six books were published
by **Writers Workshop**.

_**Contents**_
 I. _Juvenilia_ 42 poems II. _Alif/Alpha_ 22 poems III. _Pondicherry
Poems_ 13 poems IV. _Bombay, My Bombay_ 20 poems V. _Goa!_ 26 poems VI. _Shillong
Suite_ 25 poems