In This Room, The Poems Come And Go

Poems by Arjun Rajendran Section curated by Ranjit Hoskote

- Arjun Rajendran

The experience of negotiating architectural space can be very similar to that of reading a poem: the scansion of measure, the caesura that separates one zone from another, a passage that might be end-stopped or could run on, motifs that rhyme or echo one another, an elevation that invites nuanced interpretation. Likewise, the act of reading a poem can summon up the same instincts as an architect brings to the consideration of a building: how the parts fit together, how the key axes intersect, how the scale of the whole is matched by attention to detailing, how poems work in the literary neighbourhoods they occupy. Poetry and architecture resonate with each other in t