Guest and Host: Poems from Calcutta"Guest and Host" records the experience of being welcomed into the household of a foreign country. At some distance from the travel book viewpoint of the outsider looking in, Winter is able to capture the country in a deeper light through staying rather than travelling, and living rather than merely observing. The sonnet sequence "Guest and Host" is complemented by a powerful poem on the 2001 earthquake at Kutch; a fascinating sequence based on the