D.C. Chambial: A Few Reflections on his Early Poetry

Chambial is one of the most distinguished voices in Indian English Poetry. He is genuine, innovative, powerful and influential. He appears in 1983 on the poetic scene with his first collection of poems – ‘Broken Images’. Until now he has published –The Cargoes of the Bleeding Hearts & Other Poems (1984), Perceptions (1986), Gyrating Hawks and Sinking Roads (1996), Before the Petals Unfold (2002) and This Promising Age & Other Poems (2004).  Afterward, he came out with Songs of Sonority and Hope in two segments: Hours of Antipathy 2014 and River of Happiness 2017 and he did not stop until premature death embraced him.