Sudeep Sen
Sudeep Sen’s [www.sudeepsen.org] is widely recognised as a major new generation voice in world literature and ‘one of thefinest English-language poets in the international literary scene’ (BBC Radio). He received a Pleiades Honour (at the Struga Poetry Festival, Macedonia) for having made “a significantcontributiontocontemporaryworldpoetry”. His prize-winning books include: Postmarked India: New &Selected Poems (HarperCollins), Rain, Aria (A. K. Ramanujan Translation Award), Fractals: New & Selected Poems | Translations 1980-2015 (London Magazine Editions), EroText (Vintage: Penguin Random House), KaifiAzmi: Poems | Nazms(Bloomsbury) and Anthropocene: Climate Change, Contagion, Consolation (PippaRann, 2021-22 Rabindranath Tagore Literary Prize winner).
Poems by Sudeep Sen
In my city, I am surrounded by constant cries
of the dying, burning pyres heaving
under burden of wood, smoke and bones —
wailing summed up by sonic notes of Om.
Civilisation’s first sound—Sanskrit syllable
echoing a conch shell’s harmonic mapping —