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Product Description Night Sky Between The Stars is Usha Kishore's second poetry collection, which encompasses the poet s pre-occupation with Indian womanhood and articulates her concerns on a marginalised gendered identity. Drawing heavily from Sanskrit verse and Indian myth, Kishore challenges patriarchal texts, renders new voices to female mythical characters and creates an alternative dimension for Indian womanhood. In metaphor and metonymy, in ekphrastic verse; in lyrical images of goddesses, women and the monsoons, the poet voices a determined diasporic engagement with the motherland. Night Sky Between The Stars is a shift of paradigm from accepted conventions of myth; it is the verse of an exile writing home; it is an epitome of what Kishore qualifies as L écriture feminine et indienne. About the Author Usha Kishore is an award winning, Indian born British poet and translator from the Sanskrit. Kishore's poetry has been published in journals in the UK, US, India, Ireland, Europe and Australia and has been anthologised by Macmillan, Hodder Wayland, Oxford University Press (all UK) and Harper Collins India. Kishore's poetry has won prizes in UK and Irish poetry competitions, has been part of international projects, and features in the British Primary and Indian Middle School Syllabus. Kishore's first collection, On Manannan's Isle, won an Isle of Man Arts Council Award and a Culture Vannin Award and was published in the UK in 2014 by dpdotcom. A book of translations from the Sanskrit, entitled Translations of the Divine Woman, is forthcoming from Rasala Books, India.