"Six poets each from India and China and six poems from each poet, all poems jointly translated: new voices, familiar faces in a new guise, a gallimaufry of the right words in the right order. For teachers and researchers of translation there are PhDs by the dozen here, on the how, the why, and the what of it all. For poetry lovers there is more than the usual ration of delight and surprise, of the catch in the throat, the gasp of recognition, the laugh or the sob that tells you this is the real thing you're reading. This is the new world, the sound of globalisation, waiting for you. When two leading international poets like Sudeep Sen and Yang Lian join their vision and skill to produce an anthology like Himalayas, you get a cracker of a book! " -BRIAN HOLTONFeaturingfrom India: Ranjit Hoskote, Jennifer Robertson, Sudeep Sen, Ravi Shankar, Arundhathi Subramaniam, C P Surendran.from China: Zang Di , Yang Lian , Yan Rong , Dai Weina , Yang Xiaobin , Wang Ziliang .
The authorative anthology of contemporary Indian poetry in English, Converse has been especially commissioned for the 75th anniversary of Indian independence in 2022.Some 90 notable poets are represented in this collection, including:•well-known ones such as Vikram Seth, Jayanta Mahapatra, and Adil Jussawalla,•established ones such as C. P. Surendran, Arundhathi Subramaniam, and Ranjit Hoskote,•emerging voices such as Rohan Chhetri, Jhilam Chattaraj, and Jennifer Robertson.
Kaifi Azmi: Poems, Nazms is a perfect gift and homage to the great poet's 100th birth centenary celebrations. This specially curated volume contains 50 carefully chosen poems from his lifetime's immense oeuvre. It brings together some of the finest translators, poets, scholars, filmmakers - HUSAIN MIR ALI, BAIDAR BAKHT, SUMANTRA GHOSAL, PRITISH NANDY, SUDEEP SEN (also the editor) - as a team to produce this stunning bilingual English-Hindi collection. In addition, the book contains a selection of rare archival photographs of the life and times of Kaifi Azmi going back to his childhood. This centenary bilingual English – Hindi volume is a collector's edition.