# Carry Your Little Flute

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- Published: 2019-10-28T19:33:44+00:00
- Author: shuktara

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**Editors:** Meera Chakravorty and Marcus Bussey[](https://writersworkshopindia.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/Carry-Your-Little-Flute.jpeg)
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Authors:** Meera Chakravorty, Andrea Grieder, Mythili Rao, Marcus Bussey **Pages:**
72 **Year of Publication:** 2019 **Price:** Rs 250 / $15 (USD) **ISBN:** 978-81-
941819-1-0 (9788194181910)

_**About the Authors**_

**Dr Meera Chakravorty** is a research faculty member in the
 Department of Cultural
Studies, Jain University, Bangalore. She was professor in Bangalore University, 
1975-2009, and member of the Karnataka State Women’s Commission. Her engagement 
is with Philosophy, Women’s Studies, Cultural Studies and Consciousness Studies.
She has translated award-winning literary works for Sahitya Akademi. She was awarded
for her writing on ‘Time’ by University of Interdisciplinary Studies, Paris, and
John Templeton Foundation. She has also published **_[The Remnant Glow](https://writersworkshopindia.com/books/the-remnant-glow/),
[Whispers from the Borrowing Wind](https://writersworkshopindia.com/books/poetry/redbird/whispers-from-the-borrowing-wind/)_**
and **_[Gandhari and Other Poems](https://writersworkshopindia.com/books/poetry/redbird/gandhari-and-other-poems/)_**
with **Writers Workshop**, India.

**Dr Andrea Grieder** is a poet and social anthropologist, founder and director 
of transpoesis, an organization based in Rwanda with the aim to foster poetic expression
and creativity. Her work on poetry is based on the vision that poetry is a healer
and powerful source of transformation, a way of being. Originally from Switzerland,
she is the Head of Department in Social Sciences and lecturer at the University 
of Technology and Arts of Byumba, Rwanda.

**Dr Mythili P. Rao** is Professor of Hindi literature and Dean of Languages, Jain
University, Bangalore. She has a wide variety of expertise in literary and cultural
studies.

**Dr Marcus Bussey** is an Australian poet and academic whose work focuses on possibility
and transformation. His day job is at the University of the Sunshine Coast where
he is Deputy Head, School of Social Sciences; his life work is to play, dance, dream,
sing and share the joys of spirit with others.

_**About the Book**_

In their preface to the book, Dr Chakravorty and Dr Bussey write:

“… poetic reflection has its own magic, shaking up the real and presenting new ways
of seeing and responding to the world.

In this book we bring together four different, yet surprisingly complementary poets,
who each capture this magic in their own way. Meera Chakravorty pulls together a
lifetime of travel to different cultural spaces trying to remain in humility, meeting
people of varied talents from different parts of the world to gain from their fascinating
wisdom that which would act as her pole star forever. She acknowledges that dreams
harness and shape our unconscious desires to inspire us to be hopeful and tranquil
even when some people want to seek a harbour to further the fear of violence. But
even to this sea of violence poetry is the pretty coastline.

Whilst Andrea Grieder, from Switzerland, finds in poetry a way of being in the world
and of expressing her inner journey, in particular the experiences of her life in
Rwanda, Mythili Rao, from Jain University in Bengaluru, explores the world as an
inner landscape. For her the poem is an artistic expression of even the most mundane
events of our daily lives. Perhaps this is the reason that poets who dabbled with
realism preferred to use the medium of this aesthetic expression, so much so that
even their prose expressions were very poetic! As she says, “These words have been
hiding within me, teasing me to bring them out since quite some time. A humble attempt
to connect with myself.”

Finally, Marcus Bussey from Australia works between the mythic spaces of his Anglo-
Saxon and Eurasian pasts and the concerns and struggles of modern Australia. For
him poetry is always a journey worth taking, between matters both mundane and mystical.

Read together this collection presents the reader with a journey, a series of lyric
dreams, in which the reader’s heart is the destination. Alternatively, dipped into
for solace or reflective space, this collection provides a rich array of settings
for a moment of stillness and sustenance in our busy world.”

_**Contents**_
 _Preface_ / 9

_Watercolours _by Meera Chakravorty / 11
 10 poems

_Sparkles of Light_ by Andrea Grieder / 25
 8 poems

_Scattered Clouds_ by Mythili Rao / 47
 8 poems

_The Certitude of Dreams_ by Marcus Bussey / 59
 7 poems