Product Description Full of striking imagery ... shows what a contemporary poet can do with a traditional form. The Book Review The poems are passionate, sensuous and intelligent, full of energy and enterprise. They hold their dramatic shapes with grace and establish her as a poet to read and return to time and again. George Szirtes, T.S. Eliot Memorial Poetry Prize Winner, 2004 This collection of verse by one of India s most talented poets is exceptional for its haunting lyrical quality as well as for its engagement with mythic and historical forms from the Indian subcontinent. Not Springtime Yet continues Priya s quest for the perfect pitch, the idea just beyond the grasp, the thought buried in the debris of love and death. She re-imagines for us old tales of valour and love with the same ease and restless energy with which she trawls through contemporary images of war and loneliness. The result is a series of recognitions and revivals of form, tone and linguistic play. About the Author Priya Sarukkai Chabria lives in Pune. She edits Talking Poetry, the literary section of the Open Space website. She has edited two anthologies, All Poetry Is Protest and Open Spaces: 50 Poets, 50 Poems, and is the author of two novels, The Other Garden and Generation 14.