# A New Grove

- Link: https://writersworkshopindia.com/2017/08/07/a-new-grove/
- Published: 2017-08-07T17:16:11+00:00
- Author: shuktara

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**Author and Translator:** C. A. Joseph[](https://writersworkshopindia.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/WP_20170807_13_45_37_Pro-1.jpg)
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Pages:** 48 **Year of Publication:** 2017 **Price:** Rs 100 **ISBN: **978-93-5045-
156-4 (9789350451564)

_**About the Author**_
 C. A. Joseph was a Malayalam poet born in 1910 in Padur 
near Trissur, Kerala. He died in 1994. A graduate in Economics, he worked in Tamil
Nadu and retired as Regional Transport Officer from Cuddalore in 1965. He published
sixteen books of poems and six novels. Some of his poems were prescribed as texts
at the school and college level. He also contributed to Malayalam and English journals.
Joseph translated some of his poems into English, a few of which are collected in
this volume. They appeared in various periodicals such as _The Illustrated Weekly
of India, Thought, Indian Express_ and _Indian Literature _between the 1950s and
1980s.

_**Teaser**_

_All Life_

November came with a blanket of melancholy
 And a cold wind that beats Quick and
sharp Like the tail of a ray-fish

And as I sat brooding
 All life lay ebbing Between the first girl who timidly waited
With reverberations of heart For a windfall of a lover And the second satellite*
That tortures the ever virgin space.

All life has been a longing and a questioning:
 A tussle for squeezing joy and meaning
Out of unknown places and unborn time. Here a dog of adventure And there a man of
vision perish; Yet life spins on: We hope that our individual cells Will somehow
be full and safe Within the whirling honeycomb of life.

* The satellite refers to the space satellite launched around that time.

_**Contents**_
 The Loudest Colour / 9 [](https://writersworkshopindia.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Review-in-Malayala-Manorama-e1509050536397.jpg)
A New Cot’s Reverie / 10 Second God / 11 On Drinking from the Cauvery / 13 The Two
Signs / 14 An Alien on His Own Soil / 15 On Seeing a Shooting Star / 16 Dancing 
Girls and the Tamarind Tree / 17 The Worshipper in the Night / 18 The Sun and the
Root / 20 School Children / 22 The Fisherman / 23 In a Workshop / 24 The Great Fishing/
25 The Poet’s Work / 26 On Leaving the City / 27 Unending Tears / 28 The End of 
Research / 29 The Dry Tree / 31 Two Lives / 34 This Clock and Me / 35 Still the 
Immaculate Love / 36 Prison / 37 The Bat’s Way / 38 Always an Elephant / 39 The 
Little Bird of the Heavens / 41 Mango Tree in Ooty / 43 The Traveller / 45 All Life/
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