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Issue Details: First known date: 2007... 2007 A Shrine To Lata Mangeshkar
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'Is it flowers? Women plait them into their hair; truckies flower their driving-cabins for long dusty journeys...

'Is it colour? Emerald green ricefields; or the sun's gold flare on an egret's wing as it rises? Is it the yellow of mustard flowers, or the gaudy spectrum of a street festooned with movie posters? Is it Varanasi - the country's spiritual heart, some say - where pilgrims dunk themselves in the great Ganges River; or Tirupati, pilgrimage place of the south, a thousand steps up a mountain?

'Or is it Arunachala, also in the south, where the sage Ramana Maharshi taught "self inquiry"? (Ask, he said, who inquires?) If Ramana's "self inquiry" suggests a meditator's silence, it may also be relevant to ask, "Who sings?", since music and song permeate India.

'The voice of Lata Mangeshkar, honoured and revered playback singer of over five thousand Indian films, seems to express the soul of India. These poems attempt a tribute. The poet, short-story writer and novelist Vicki Viidikas pitchforked Kerry Leves into India. Together they travelled down, up and across the country. They didn't do it "posh". Out of the travelling came these poems of Kerry's: an outsider's inside journey.' (Publisher's blurb)

Contents

* Contents derived from the Glebe, Glebe - Leichhardt - Balmain area, Sydney Inner West, Sydney, New South Wales,:Puncher and Wattmann , 2007 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
Himachal Morningi"Shoeless", Kerry Leves , single work poetry

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

Works about this Work

Ali Alizadeh; of Barry Scott,ed., Vicki Viidikas : New and Rediscovered, and Kerry Leves, A Shrine to Lata Mangeshka Ali Alizadeh , 2011 single work review
— Appears in: Long Paddock , vol. 70 no. 3 2011;

— Review of New and Rediscovered Vicki Viidikas , 2010 selected work poetry prose short story ; A Shrine To Lata Mangeshkar Kerry Leves , 2007 selected work poetry
A Diversion on the Technical Side : A Good Free Verse Poem and a Good Contemporary Sonnet David Kelly , 2010 single work review
— Appears in: Famous Reporter , no. 41 2010; (p. 77-82)

— Review of A Shrine To Lata Mangeshkar Kerry Leves , 2007 selected work poetry
Brieflings David Gilbey , 2010 single work review
— Appears in: Famous Reporter , no. 40 2010; (p. 106-110)

— Review of Death and the Motorway David Gilbey , 2008 selected work poetry ; Postcards from the Asylum Karen Knight , 2008 selected work poetry ; The Other Way Out Bronwyn Lea , 2008 selected work poetry ; A Shrine To Lata Mangeshkar Kerry Leves , 2007 selected work poetry ; Therapy Like Fish : New and Selected Poems Marcella Polain , 2008 selected work poetry ; Slow Skipping Alison Thompson , 2008 selected work poetry
Kristin Hannaford Reviews A Shrine to Lata Mangeshkar by Kerry Leves Kristin Hannaford , 2009 single work review
— Appears in: Mascara Literary Review , June no. 5 2009;

— Review of A Shrine To Lata Mangeshkar Kerry Leves , 2007 selected work poetry
Take Me to the River Adrian Robinson , 2008 single work review
— Appears in: Long Paddock , no. 3 2008;

— Review of Erasure Traces : Collected Works, Volume 2 John Watson , 2008 selected work poetry ; A Shrine To Lata Mangeshkar Kerry Leves , 2007 selected work poetry
Take Me to the River Adrian Robinson , 2008 single work review
— Appears in: Long Paddock , no. 3 2008;

— Review of Erasure Traces : Collected Works, Volume 2 John Watson , 2008 selected work poetry ; A Shrine To Lata Mangeshkar Kerry Leves , 2007 selected work poetry
Kristin Hannaford Reviews A Shrine to Lata Mangeshkar by Kerry Leves Kristin Hannaford , 2009 single work review
— Appears in: Mascara Literary Review , June no. 5 2009;

— Review of A Shrine To Lata Mangeshkar Kerry Leves , 2007 selected work poetry
Brieflings David Gilbey , 2010 single work review
— Appears in: Famous Reporter , no. 40 2010; (p. 106-110)

— Review of Death and the Motorway David Gilbey , 2008 selected work poetry ; Postcards from the Asylum Karen Knight , 2008 selected work poetry ; The Other Way Out Bronwyn Lea , 2008 selected work poetry ; A Shrine To Lata Mangeshkar Kerry Leves , 2007 selected work poetry ; Therapy Like Fish : New and Selected Poems Marcella Polain , 2008 selected work poetry ; Slow Skipping Alison Thompson , 2008 selected work poetry
A Diversion on the Technical Side : A Good Free Verse Poem and a Good Contemporary Sonnet David Kelly , 2010 single work review
— Appears in: Famous Reporter , no. 41 2010; (p. 77-82)

— Review of A Shrine To Lata Mangeshkar Kerry Leves , 2007 selected work poetry
Ali Alizadeh; of Barry Scott,ed., Vicki Viidikas : New and Rediscovered, and Kerry Leves, A Shrine to Lata Mangeshka Ali Alizadeh , 2011 single work review
— Appears in: Long Paddock , vol. 70 no. 3 2011;

— Review of New and Rediscovered Vicki Viidikas , 2010 selected work poetry prose short story ; A Shrine To Lata Mangeshkar Kerry Leves , 2007 selected work poetry
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    India,
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    South Asia, South and East Asia, Asia,
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