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  Mustansir Dalvi's Poetry Archive
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APRIL 2005 NEWS
Mustansir Dalvi's poem 'the horse is a centaur' gets honourable mention in the Desert Moon Journal's Critter Poem Competition.
Mustansir Dalvi has his first Poetry Reading at the Chauraha, National Center for the Performing Arts, Bombay on 26th April 2005.
DECEMBER 2004 NEWS
Mustansir Dalvi's poem "Sunset at Bardem" is published online in the e-zine PK POETRY LIST - ANTHOLOGY, December 2004
http://www.poetrykit.org/PK%20ANTHOLOGY%202004/135.htm
FEBRUARY 2004 NEWS
Mustansir Dalvi's poem "Hunchback of the World Trade Centre" is Editor's choice and added to the page 'Noted on Desert Moon' at the Desert Moon Review.
http://www.desertmoonreview.com/noted.html
Mustansir Dalvi's poem 'Haven' has won the Second Prize in the 'Mean Poetry' Contest organised by the Writer's Block.
Judges Comments:
An excellent example of what this contest is all about. The biting, judgmental voice, the self posturing throughout, would be enough. But you have chosen to start off making your point by using the unforgivable vehicle of the handicapped, crossing over all lines of societal decency. "the incontinent, the catatonic with soiled bottoms, the slobbering fringe." Mean, mean, mean. Even babies aren't exempt before this poem is done. You make the reader uncomfortable with such contempt and arrogance. But there is more to this poem. There is the suppressed truth that is both subtle and energetic, the truth that we are open-minded only if the other person agrees with us, if WE deem them as having worth. And that leaves the reader wondering, "Will I make the cut?" Excellent poem. Congratulations.
This poem has a wry brilliance to it and a cutting wit.The curmudgeon-like voice is written in the manner of Jonathan Swift’s “A Modest Proposal for Preventing the Children of Poor People in Ireland from Being a Burden to Their Parents. . . .” At the same time, the poet is able to have fun and share their exuberance with the reader. This poem may be more overt in its mean spiritedness than some of the subtler examples given in Tony Hoagland’s essay on “mean poetry” that we referenced in issuing the challenge but it is a fine work nonetheless and shows the range of possibilities of poems written with such an edge.
The sardonic voice here is well-maintained throughout---though the overall parodic tone threatens to undermine (at times) the object of ridicule. The first 9 lines read so smoothly that it's easy to miss how sly the hand is here, beginning with something that many people probably would be uncomfortable with, sitting next to "catatonics with soiled bottoms", but then quickly moving (much as society has a tendency to do, in the same sort of case) to anyone who might subvert order, to instill a regime of "norms," etc. Though I think the tone slips, occasionally, into self-righteousness, the poem is nevertheless an excellent example of how "cutting" and "critical" poetry can be.
JANUARY 2004 NEWS
Mustansir Dalvi's poem "Backwater Bongo" is published in e-zine WORM 26, January 2004, and is the Editor's Choice of M.A.Griffiths:
'I enjoyed the exuberant vocabulary and the blending of natural and technological imagery. I feel this poem is as much about the richness of the English language as anything else. An exhilarating ride.'
DECEMBER 2003 NEWS
Mustansir Dalvi has been featured as Guest Poet on 'Poetic Inspirations' at www.poeticinspire.com, edited by Pris Campbell. Two poems 'Caterwaul' and 'Peabody' have been featured.
http://www.poeticinspire.com/guestdalvi.html
NOVEMBER 2003 NEWS
Mustansir Dalvi's poem "Sunset at Bardem" is published in The Crescent Moon Journal, Fall 2003
http://www.desertmoonreview.com/discus/
SEPTEMBER 2003 NEWS
Mustansir Dalvi's poem "hardback awakening" is published in Slow Trains, Vol. III, Issue 2, Fall 2003
http://www.slowtrains.com/vol3issue2/dalvivol3issue2.html
AUGUST 2003 NEWS
Mustansir Dalvi's poem "edge" is published in MiPo Best of HeadQuarters 2003, August 2003
Editorial Comments by Mia, Birch and Koromilas:
"There are two stories here, in Mustansir Dalvi's "Edge"; two difficult relationships - husband and wife, parents and child - and both are uncomfortable, both are edgy, sharp like a knife. The sharp edge of a letter opener becomes the muted symbol of communication within this family: the child clutches it; the mother snatches it away and the father retrieves it, again. In writing, Dalvi's method is like the archaeologist's. While the archaeologist silently unearths entire cities under our modern ones, Dalvi unravels the layers of our very own human psyche. He takes a situation - here, how to parent an autistic child - and digs and digs deep into what we all know is lurking there within us, but can't articulate. Well, Dalvi can and does."
http://www.mipoesias.com/MiPoBest2003/mustansir.html
JULY 2003 NEWS
Mustansir Dalvi's poem "afterglow" is the winner of the June 2003 Afterglow/Aftermath Challenge at MiPo Headquarters' 'Word Fingers' Forum
Mustansir Dalvi's poem "Danaë" is published in the e-zine Snakeskin,The Water Special,Issue No. 92,, July 2003.
http://homepages.nildram.co.uk/~simmers/watersn.htm
MAY 2003 NEWS
Mustansir Dalvi's poem "sunken ship" is published in the e-zine The Crescent Moon Journal, Spring Edition, 2003 , May 2003.
http://www.desertmoonreview.com/discus/
Mustansir Dalvi's poem "Faith on the Vembanad" is published in the e-zine Writer's Hood, May 2003.
http://www.writershood.com/htms/tp12_05_03.htm
APRIL 2003 NEWS
Mustansir Dalvi's poem "sunken ship" won third prize in the Desert Moon Review Spring Poetry Contest, in honor of Poetry Month.April 2003
Mustansir Dalvi's poem "shock and awe" is published in the e-zine Octavo; the poetry quarterly of the Alsop Review, Spring 2003, April 2003
http://www.alsopreview.com/octavo/dalvi.htm
MARCH 2003 NEWS
Mustansir Dalvi's IBPC award winning poem "Peabody" is published in the e-zine Writer's Hood, February 2003. editor: Gary Blankenship
http://www.writershood.com/htms/tp14_03_03.htm
Mustansir Dalvi's poem "Haven" is published in the e-zine MiPo Digital magazine, April 2003, Volume 12, 'MiPo under the Mask'
http://www.mipoesias.com/April2003/mustansir.htm
FEBRUARY 2003 NEWS
Mustansir Dalvi's poem "Anywhere but Hind" is published in the e-zine can we have our ball back 16.0 , February 2003. This is part of the Mar Thom cycle of poems.
http://canwehaveourballback.com/16dalvi.htm
MiPo Zine' Poetry Board's DandD Contest
Mustansir Dalvi's poem 'Haven' is selected as Honourable Mention along with 8 other poems and will be published along with the prize winning poem in the next MiPo Digital Magazine Issue due in April.
http://pub54.ezboard.com/fcafecafefrm117
Mustansir Dalvi's poem 'Peabody' has been published in the 'editor selects' section of the newly designed IBPC website.
http://webdelsol.com/bbs/IBPC/editorselects.html
DECEMBER 2002 NEWS
Mustansir Dalvi's poem "Peabody" won the 1st Place, as Winning Poem for December 2002,in the The InterBoard Poetry Competition (IBPC). Nominated by Desert Moon Review
Comments from the judges (River Styx editors): "We thought the winning poem was very original in conception and structure and emotionally rich and rewarding."
Mustansir Dalvi's poem
"The Last Dinosaur Roams Matheran"
is published in the e-zine Pierian Springs, V2-E2, December 2002; Richard C. Williams, editor
http://www.pieriansprings.net/issue2.2/contents.html
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