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Vivek Narayanan Poet India
Vivek Narayanan was born in India in 1972 to Tamil-speaking parents. He has lived, worked and studied in a number of countries, including Zambia, South Africa and the U.S. In 2006, He published his first collection of poems Universal Beach (2006), and both prose and poetry can be found widely online and in print, including in some recent anthologies: 60 Indian Poets (2007), The Bloodaxe Book of Contemporary Indian Poetry (2008), Language for a New Century: Contemporary: Poetry from the Middle East, Asia, and Beyond (2008). He also explores different approaches to reading and performing. He has tried to fuse poetry with other forms in a series of collaborations, experimenting with technology, physical space, movement, site-specific poetry and audience-generated poetry. Narayanan is Consulting Editor for the online journal, Almost Island (almostisland.com) and an Associate Editor for the Boston-based poetry annual, Fulcrum. He normally works in Delhi at Sarai Programme at CSDS (www.sarai.net), but is currently on sabbatical in Chennai.
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