The poetry of seven contemporary poets from Kerala (1934 - present), selected and edited by Gopikrishnan Kottoor is presented in this beautiful poetry anthology.LIVING POETRYThe fecundities of native language, culture, climate, topography, among myriad other indigenous resources precipitate the poetryscape of the Indian poet writing in English.More and more anthologies of the kind will help bring out the luxuriant variants of poetry from India that the world is presently looking at. Ventures such as this will go miles to further our poetry in English while helping to do away with threats from 'forces of standardization' as Sri K. Satchidanandan rightly observes.