Augatora is not a new word: it is a word lost from language a millennium ago. In Old High German it meant, more or less, 'eye
gate' ('window' with an inbuilt etymology).
The windows in this book open on real and imagined land- and cityscapes. India, past and present, remains 'a necessary
obsession'.  Here also we see Durban, Riga, New Orleans, Amsterdam, Jerusalem, Barcelona, and the small island of Juist off the German North Sea coast, site of her long poem 'The Hole in the
Wind', broadcast by BBC Radio Drama. Memory, science, language, history and love remain
Bhatt's themes; she amply justifies the New Statesman claim that she is 'one of the finest poets
alive' - alive in many different ways. What the Times Literary Supplement said about Point No Point: Selected Poems holds true for Augatora:
'a substantial collection of poems, one that allows us to travel, dream and learn, but one that ultimately moves us by the quietude of its stance and its impeccable
articulation.'