# I Hunger Too

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- Published: 2015-07-19T18:49:41+00:00
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**Author:** Joe Winter
 **Pages:** 88 **Year of Publication:** 2012 **Price:** Rs
150 **ISBN:** 978-93-5045-026-0 (9789350450260)

_**About the Author**_
 Joe Winter was born in London in 1943 and began writing 
poetry at the age of 19. He taught English in secondary schools in London from 1967
to 1993 and between 2006 and 2011. He lived in Calcutta from 1994 to 2006 where 
he taught part-time as well. His poems have been published by **Writers Workshop**,
India in a series of 18 volumes. Many of his articles have appeared in _The Statesman_,
Calcutta. He lives in Brighton.

_**Teaser**_

_to my daughter, 21_

Dear, as you journey through a volcanic country
 where nothing grows, the ground
is harsh on the foot, old smoke is in the air, and an acrid smell tells of an all-
too-near and all-too-certain roar of the wronged (and a new sorrow settles upon 
the shoulders of your sisters and brothers in this or that village), as you see 
further into the landscape of loss – taste the weariness, feel it,

for you are condemned to joy. Brushed by wild flowers,
 light with a touch of the
sky as a woman knows it, cousin to Nature’s green, you are in no shadow of her defeat.
Open to the vista of a singed world, still you accept your sentence, never alone,
and near to a father’s love.

_**Contents**_
 41 poems