Hotel Raphael by Rachael Boast Vidyan Ravinthiran Tishani Doshi's poetry bestows power

Tishani Doshi's poetry bestows power on the powerless

As antagonisms and intimacies converge

Ranjit Hoskote belongs to the younger generation of Indian poets who began to publish their work during the early 1990s

Like an agile monkey

and the moral authority found in craft without artificiality

Hotel Raphael by Rachael Boast Vidyan Ravinthiran Tishani Doshi's poetry bestows powerHotel Raphael, Rachael Boasts fourth collection, charts a journey through heat, drought and pain, and describes not only the reality of chronic illness, but living with it at a time of global crisis. Raphael is the patron saint of travellers and pilgrims, and also of healing; in the search for remedy, we pass through the balm of landscape, and brush against the worlds of artists, writers and filmmakers, whose angels broadcast to us from other rooms.