Yogesh Patel received an MBE for literature in the Queen's New Year Honours list 2020. Internationally celebrated, he edits Skylark and runs Skylark Publications UK as well as a non-profit Word Masala project to promote literature. Honoured with the Freedom of the City of London, he has LP records, films, radio, a children's book, fiction and non-fiction books, and three poetry collections to his credit. A recipient of many awards, Patel was Poet-of-Honor at New York University in April 2019. Among the many venues he has read in, are the House of Lords and the National Poetry Library. Patel's writing has appeared in many major literary journals, including PN Review, The London Magazine, Asia Literary Review, Under the Radar, Shearsman, IOTA, Envoi, Understanding, Orbis, The Book Review, and Confluence. He has also appeared on BBC TV and Radio, and in newspapers and magazines. Patel's work also features in The National Curriculum anthology, MacMillan, Sahitya Akademi, and numerous other anthologies across the world. He is currently a Poetry Editor at Ars Notoria and writes regular columns for iGlobal and Confluence. By profession, Patel is a qualified optometrist and an accountant. Author's Websites are: www.patelyogesh.co.uk and www.skylarkpublications.co.uk
Yogesh Patel raids diverse areas of experience and many literatures
to make a 'jazz of poetry'. These poems travel with a Freedom Pass
and a crow-sharp eye through Greek, Indian, African and Chinese
myth, via the error page and cryptocurrency, all the way to the
milk round and disrupted ecologies. They play on connections and
disconnections, acting as improvisations that bounce sound and
light into the broken corners of the world.Imtiaz DharkerTo come
across Yogesh Patel's poetry is like a door opening to the fresh
light at the end of a dark corridor. There are poets of the east
and poets of the west, but in this collection Patel shows that he
is a poet of both sensibilities. In this way, the subtleties of
Indian poetic form and tone are gently entwined with those of the
English tradition to form a new, delicate and original utterance.
Daring, sophisticated and playful - Patel's poetry is a calligraphy
of the soul made visible. It is a rare achievement. Steven O'Brien
In The Rapids Yogesh Patel unveils a vigorous new poetic form,
which looks set to give writers and readers pleasure for years to
come. What doubles the pleasure is the way these poems bring the
human and natural worlds in together on a single, generous breath.
Fiona Sampson Yogesh Patel's poems are pieced together as fragments
of a range of cultures threaded on a sensibility that is
philosophical and universalist. The poems take you to places of
high tension then turn away to face others as if the world itself
were restless and constantly on the move. It is like being engaged
in an overheard dialogue with language. George Szirtes
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