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In incandescent prose, award-winning novelist Jeet Thayil tells the story of Newton Francis Xavier, blocked poet, serial seducer of young women, reformed alcoholic (but only just), philosopher, recluse, all-round wild man and India’s greatest living painter. At the age of 66, Xavier, who has been living in New York, is getting ready to return to the land of his birth to stage one final show of his work (accompanied by a mad bacchanal).

Shuklaji Street, in Old Bombay. In Rashid's opium room a young woman holds a long-stemmed pipe over a flame as men sprawl and mutter in the gloom. In Shuklaji Street they say you introduce only your worst enemy to opium. But then whispers build of a new terror, something that shifts the tenuous...

Following the death of his wife, Dominic Ullis escapes to Bombay in search of oblivion and a dangerous new drug, Meow Meow. So begins a glorious weekend of misadventure as he tours the teeming, kaleidoscopic city from its sleek eyries of high-capital to the piss-stained streets, encountering a cast with their own stories to tell, but none of whom Ullis - his faculties ever distorted - is quite sure he can trust.

Rattapallax, described as the "visceral multimedia hit of poetry" by TimeOut magazine, features readings from leading contemporary poets and writers. Some notable poets in this issue are Anne Waldman, John Kinsella, Meena Alexander, Venus Khoury-Ghata, Marilyn Hacker, Claire Malroux, and Robin Becker.

Rattapallax, described as the "visceral multimedia hit of poetry" by TimeOut magazine, features readings from leading contemporary poets and writers. Special feature on Pablo Neruda. Some notable poets in this issue are Martin Espada, Charles Bernstein, Sapphire, Breyten Breytenbach, Timothy Liu, Charles Martin, Brenda Coultas, and Fernando Paixa.

Rattapallax, described as the "visceral multimedia hit of poetry" by TimeOut magazine, features readings from leading contemporary poets and writers. Rattapallax 12 features poetry on post-Apartheid South Africa, including works from poets such notable poets as Raul Zurita, Tomas Harris, Harolodo de Campos, and Dael Orlandersmith