Paris has never been projected as a cold city. Always as the romantic one. Having only two days, we hopped on the Paris L'Open tour bus in order to get a clear picture of the city as such. The cold, as we waited for the bus to arrive, was slowly teaching us that it was … Continue reading Paris L’Open on a cold day.
Author: Aadhi Avrina ஆதி அவ்ரீனா
அவ்ரீனா Avrina (1992, Tamil Nadu) is a trans poet and writer living in Berlin. They are many poets, spirits and voices sharing one body. They write places, beings and times. Obsessed with memories that pervade and evade, often of childhood, avrina’s writing is an ebb and flow characteristic of their desire for the sea. avrina’s story won the Short Fiction / University of Essex International Short Story Prize 2021 and works have been nominated, among others, for the Craft Short Fiction Prize, Indiana Review Fiction Prize, the Berlin Writing Prize, and the Desperate Literature Short Fiction Prize. A devoted bardic poet, avrina has read at Bangalore Literature Festival, Mathrubhumi International Festival of Letters Kerala, Prosanova Hildesheim, Academy of Arts Berlin, the LCB, Poesie Festival Berlin, etc. apart from being published in Prairie Schooner, Sinn und Form, The Bombay Literary Magazine, Stoff aus Luft, Kaalachuvadu, etc. avrina was a literature fellow of the city of Berlin in 2024 and is currently represented by Kanishka Gupta at Writer's Side. www.avrinajos.net.
"Never did sun more beautifully steep / In his first splendor, valley, rock, or hill; / Ne'er saw I, never felt, a calm so deep! / The river glideth at his own sweet will: / Dear God! The very houses seem asleep; / And all that mighty heart is lying still!" (Upon Westminster Bridge- William … Continue reading Upon Westminster Bridge
அவ்ரீனா AVRINA, poet and writer 