poem in a bottle.
a random act of kindness project curated by Shloka Shankar and the bric-à-brac poets
We are the bric-à-brac poets, a growing community of artistes from India, and we bring to you our our Poem in a Bottle project, inspired by The Poetry Pharmacy in the UK. What kind of poem, you ask? Inside each of these 200 bottles, you will find one- or two-line short poems inspired by Japanese poetry, authored by 76 poets around the world. These poetic bottles will be freely distributed across various locations such as cafes, bookshops, and libraries in Bangalore, Chennai, Hyderabad, Kolkata, Mumbai, and Pune. By infusing public spaces with these miniature poetic treasures, the project aims to make short-form poetry more accessible and delight unsuspecting readers.
PARTICIPATING POETS
Batch One
Aishwarya V. | Chidambar N. | Deepa Patil | G. Akila | Ganesh R. | Nivy | Norma Bradley | Prashanth V.
Raghav Sundar | Raju Tai | Shloka Shankar | Shrehya Taneja | Surashree Joshi | Vidya Premkumar | Vikas Sehra
Batch Two
Aishwarya V. | Alison Jennings | Chidambar N. | Claire Thom | Cynthia Anderson | Diane Carmony | Ganesh R. Jill Muhrer | John Levy | Kala Ramesh | Katherine E Winnick | Kathy U. Nguyen | Maeve O'Sullivan
Marc Brimble | Marion Clarke | Nalini Shetty | Norma Bradley | Raghav Sundar | Raju Tai
Robert Kingston | Shloka Shankar | Shravan Kavattur | Shrehya Taneja | Vikas Sehra
Batch Three
Anna Drobot | Arvinder Kaur | C. X. Turner | Corine Timmer | Curt Linderman | Cynthia Anderson
Diane Carmony | Dr. Amoolya Kamalnath | Helen Buckingham | John Levy | John Pappas
Kalyanee Arandhara | Kavita Ratna | Marc Brimble | Maria Tosti | Melissa Dennison | Michele Rule
Nitu Yumnam | Norma Bradley | Patrichia Dcruze | Peter Jastermsky | Ranu Jain | Rupa Anand
Tomislav Maretic | Tomislav Sjekloća | Vidya Premkumar | Vijay Prasad
Batch Four
Aksheeya | Angele Ellis | Anju Kishore | Barbara Anna Gaiardoni | Billie Dee | Erin Lorandos
Jennifer Gurney | Joan Leotta | Kavitha Sreeraj | Lori Brack | Mirela Brailean | Mona Bedi
Muskaan Ahuja | Mustansir Dalvi | Nitu Yumnam | Pamela A. Babusci | Peter Jastermsky
Sandip Chauhan | Sandra Martyres | Sanjuktaa Asopa | Shloka Shankar | Sumitra Kumar | Susan Beth Furst
Tapan Mozumdar | Teji Sethi | Terri L. French | Tony Williams | Vidya Premkumar | Vidya Shankar
Poem in a Bottle displayed at Storyteller Bookstore, Kolkata
Poem in a Bottle displayed at Champaca Bookstore, Bangalore
DISTRIBUTION PARTNERS
Backyard, Chennai | Odyssey Bookstore, Chennai | Sunshine House, Chennai | Blossom Book House, Bangalore Champaca Bookstore, Bangalore | Atta Galatta, Bangalore | MR Book Center, Hyderabad | Avisha Couture, Kolkata Storyteller Bookstore, Kolkata
OUTREACH PARTNERS
Harish Gowda | Vidhi Ashar | Vikram Reddy | Vidya Shankar | Nivy | Ayushi Dubey | Patrichia Dcruze
SPECIAL MENTION
Vidya Premkumar | Suguna S. | Dharshini N. | Sushmitha V. | Kala Ramesh | John Levy | Diane Carmony | Lori Brack