Shorelines by Adil Jussawalla. Published in 2019 by Poetrywala, an imprint of Paperwall Media and Publishing Private Limited, 1201/D-Octacrest, Lokhandwala Township, Kandivali (East), Bombay 400101; website: www.paperwall.in; email: info@paperwall.in Pp: 57. Price: Rs 250.
Adil Jussawalla has just published a collection of wonderful and moving poems, Shorelines. He uses an extract from a very famous and moving Breton fisherman’s prayer for protection, as an epigraph to this collection: "The sea is so big / And my craft so small.” Significantly, he omits the first line of the prayer, "Dear God, be good to me.” He says, "I did not want to......