{"id":4167,"date":"2013-10-12T21:52:04","date_gmt":"2013-10-12T21:52:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/?p=4167"},"modified":"2025-12-04T10:39:29","modified_gmt":"2025-12-04T10:39:29","slug":"digital-monsoon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/index.php\/2013\/10\/digital-monsoon\/","title":{"rendered":"Digital Monsoon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So writes Siddhartha Bose in his new book of experimental poetry &#8211; <em>Digital Monsoon<\/em>. In this follow-up to the acclaimed debut <em>Kalagora<\/em>, Bose proposes the poet as a twenty-first century beatnik, a ravenous language machine eating up the margins of the city.<\/p>\n<p>Dreams trigger extraordinary visions of an apocalyptic London populated by technologised bodies; beat-boxers and graffiti writers as urban oracles; the ghosts of a multicultural city moving through banks and brothels, kebab shops and squat parties. Dispatches from the post-industrial landscapes of the North, and from the poet&#8217;s hometowns of Mumbai and Kolkata, complete this raw and uncompromisingly modern collection of poems and texts. Composed in Bose&#8217;s trademark rhythmical, open field style, <em>Digital Monsoon<\/em> celebrates the dynamism of the urban edgeland in an updated Jazz Age poetic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>None of this is the city. All of it is you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,29,79],"tags":[141,149,121,196,125,103],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4167"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4167"}],"version-history":[{"count":70,"href":"https:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4167\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17101,"href":"https:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4167\/revisions\/17101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}