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At the Cambridge Library - a Poem by Yogesh Patel

One Ocean

 

Tell the ocean

Not to be fooled by a man

Holding a broken mirror

Peddling a lie

That it shows an ocean divided

 

Whales will tell you

There is only one ocean

There are two points

A place to feed

A place to breed

 

The rest is the abracadabra

Of a migration

 

Politicians will never tell you

Why there is no one nation

Why they are holding a mirror

©Yogesh Patel

At the National Poetry Library

At the Poetry Café, the Poetry Society

At the Hunter College NY

 At the Royal Society of Literature with Dr Debjani Chatterjee and Stephen Fry 

At Nassau Community College, NY


At the New York University with Salman Rushdie

Salman Rushdie presenting Swimming with Whales by Yogesh Patel

The event presented by Yogesh Patel and Lord Parekh at the House of Lords in 2016, packed with readings, projects, awards and book launches.

From left:Bobby Nayyar, Usha Akella, Divya Mathur, Zata Banks, Baroness Prashar, Lord Parekh, Yogesh Patel (introducing Word Masala Foundation), Debjani Chatterjee, Priya Patel, Daljit Nagra, Shanta Acharya, Reginald Massey, Usha Kishore and Emma Wright.

At the House of Lords, Yogesh Patel was honoured with the Vatayan International Trophy & Citation for Excellence in Poetry by Baroness Flather, Divya Mathur, and C B Patel.

Launching Reshma Ruia's collection published by Skylark Publications UK

Poets L-R: 

Rishi Dastidar, Mimi Khalvati (King's Gold Medal for Poetry,2024), Reshma Ruia, Yogesh Patel MBE, Todd Swift (Eyewear PublIcashing)