Review: Ranjit Hoskote s Hunchprose Is Up There With the Best
Hoskote is one of the most respected art critics around and this book is also testimony to his wide reading of arcane subjects.
A musk deer. Photo: Nabin Limbu/Flickr CC BY NC ND 2.0
When reviewing something outstanding, it is best to be upfront. Ranjit Hoskote’s
Hunchprose is fit to be put alongside the best of Dom Moraes. The poetry and its subterranean voice, ambivalent in the sense they speak in different tones, snare the reader. The very first poem, ‘Man with Parrots’, situates the man in this age: