Anitha Thampi Biography
Anitha Thampi was born in 1968 in Kerela. She is a Malayalam poet with two collections of poetry to her credit. Her first book, Muttamatikkumbol (Sweeping the Courtyard), published in 2004, was chosen as “the best poetry book of the year” by the influential Malayalam newspaper, Mathrubhumi. Her second collection, Azhakillathavayellam (All that are bereft of beauty) was published in 2010 after a span of seven years. In 2007, her Malayalam translations of Australian poet Les Murray were published in a bilingual edition.
Mint - Four or five leaves
Sugar - Two tea spoons
Juice - from three lemons
Two and a half Vodka
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My back aches as at dawn
with a broom I turn into past
the pockmarked fronrtyard
of the sleeping house.
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She who paints,
draws jackfruits
on the branches of the jackfruit tree
and on the roots
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