# God Owes Me Royalties

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**Author:** Vinay Verma
 **Pages:** 44 **Year of Publication:** 2011 **Price:** 
HB Rs 100 / $20 (USD) **ISBN:** 978-93-5045-014-7 (9789350450147)

_**About the Author**_
 Vinay Verma grew up in Calcutta where he completed his graduation
in English Honours from St. Xavier’s College. His first collection of poetry, _Poppies
and Ashes_, was brought out by Poetry Guild, Calcutta in 1967. He has three other
books to his credit – _Applejack Bluebean and River Mountain_ (Poetry Guild, Calcutta,
1969), _**Mother of Fire**_ (**Writers Workshop**, India, 1981) and _By God’s Decree_(
Harper and Row, Sydney, 1986). Verma moved to Australia in 1970 and lived in Sydney
for the rest of his life. Sadly, he passed away in 2011, before this book was released.

_**Teaser**_

_God Owes Me Royalties_

Do my words need makeup
 antiage cream for my lines Remixing and deejaying multiple
images of a singular deity Reincarnated of carnality cindered in obdurate morality
Pulsing throbbing the ghosts rearranging Skeletons like lego pomegranate lovebuds
juicing stains Not guilt but smudged badges of honour my soul copyrighted for firstuse
and the royalties will pay the debt I accrued on your behalf.

_**Contents**_
 _Foreword by Gideon Haigh_ / 9 New Migrant / 11 End of the Beginning:
The Trickledown Effect / 12 Burying the Seasons / 13 Not My Brother’s Keeper / 14
Not My Footprints / 15 Politics on a Carromboard / 16 The Ant’s Prayer / 17 Unfaithful
Servant / 18 No More Promises / 19 Fractured Light / 20 A Sacred Thread / 21 How
Deep Is the Sky / 22 How Long Is a Piece of String / 23 In Joy, In Anger / 24 Mother
of Fire / 25 My Grandmothers’ Red Clay Pot / 26 The Last Poplar / 27 Where Is the
Milkmaid / 28 Broken Hill / 29 A ’48 Oldsmobile / 30 Unteachings / 31 Living Death/
32 Neverborn and Twice Dead / 33 Conversations with Pinstripes / 34 Negative Transparencies/
36 Doing God’s Work / 37 The Contortionist / 38 Wind Cuts No More / 39 Watermark/
40 God Owes Me Royalties / 41