Something Beautiful Travels Far (Poems) by Shaista Tayabali. Published in 2018 by the author, 14, Hauxton Road, Little Shelford, Cambridge, CB22 5HJ; email: shaistatayabali@gmail.com Pp: 75. Price: UK £ 7.99; US $ 10.50.
Something Beautiful Travels Far is a collection of [which author Shaista Tayabali (pictured) terms] "travelling poems.” In the title poem, Something Beautiful Travels Far, she ponders how far a beautiful cup of bone china with blue flowers from Bengal and the shimmering golden watch which once adorned her great-great-grandmother’s skin have travelled. In a similar fashion, have her beautiful poems travelled: they are set in India, Bruges, Bali,......