‘In Shakespeare’s Tempest, Sycorax is already dead when Prospero and Miranda arrive on the island. The Sycorax in my poem is still alive . . . She is still defiant, still fierce, but she is old and knows that death is no longer so far away . . . I wanted to follow Sycorax, keep her company, as it were, up to the final moment.’

In poems, both satirical and elegiac, and myths and fables, created and imaginatively retold, fabulist Suniti Namjoshi once again presents a unique world view that redefines familiar landscapes and challenges accepted social perceptions. Sycorax: New Fables and Poems is a signature display of the elegant wit and tremendous compassion that have made Namjoshi’s work so popular among readers across continents.