WPP [World Poetry/Prose Portfolio] New Series | No. 1 ALFREDO PÉREZ ALENCART, born in Puerto Maldonado, Perú in 1962 is a Peruvian-Spanish poet and teacher at the University of Salamanca. He has published 15 books, among them, Mother Forest (2002), Hear me, my Brethren (2009), Cartography of the Revelations (2011),…
Category: Sudeep Sen
Centenary
Polish up your alien / techniques of observation, / while the city burns.’
Nissim Ezekiel On the birth centenary of Nissim Ezekiel and his impact on Indian poetry in English by SUDEEP SEN 1. I want to talk about Nissim Ezekiel, purely from a practising Indian poet’s point of view, and not as an academic or literary historian. I first met Nissim Ezekiel…
Anjana Neira Dev
Nissim Ezekiel: Between Desire and Reason
Nissim Ezekiel, illustration A Tribute to the Herald of Modern Indian English Poetry by Anjana Neira Dev As we commemorated Nissim Ezekiel, the herald of modernity in Indian English poetry; on his hundredth birthday, and enter a season of heat and dust and of course the king of fruits, I…
FOUR GHAZALS
Sudeep Sen: FOUR GHAZALS
Photo by Kaboompics.com Monsoon Apertures Each drop scripts a silence I cannot explain — the monsoon writes letters across my windowpane. Your absence is not void, but a humid breath — it stains my shirt-collar like turmeric or rain. Even the wind hesitates before touching me — a lover once…
Language
Sudeep Sen: Language
Vishnu, Photo by Spoortesh Honey – pexels 21st March is World Poetry Day. To celebrate it, here is a poem by Sudeep Sen. . . Without translation, I would be limited tothe borders of my own country. The translator ismy most important ally.— ITALO CALVINO Language . 1 .1 …
Photography
POET-PORTRAITS
‘Meditation’ (2024) Copyright photograph by Sudeep Sen (inspired by photographs shot by poet Sudeep Sen in Bhutan, June 2024) . by JHILAM CHATTARAJ an ekphrastic poem . Far, in the plains, sun-sleeved daylight ushers a cool, cobalt evening— . an echo of a word-shepherd chanting hymns across hypnotic hills….
Climate Change
Tagore Prize Awarded to Sudeep Sen
The cover of Anthropocene, by Sudeep Sen Review by Peter Cowlam All of us here at Ars Notoria are delighted at the news that our poetry editor, Sudeep Sen, has been awarded the prestigious Tagore Prize for 2021–22. The Rabindranath Tagore Literary Prize, a literary honour in India conferred annually…
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