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"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 HOLTON
Featuring
from India: Ranjit Hoskote, Jennifer Robertson, Sudeep Sen, Ravi Shankar, Arundhathi Subramaniam, C P Surendran.
from China: Zang Di 臧棣, Yang Lian 杨炼, Yan Rong 晏榕, Dai Weina 戴潍娜, Yang Xiaobin 杨小滨, Wang Ziliang 王自亮.
Sudeep Sen
Translated into 25 languages, Sudeep Sen's own works include Postmarked India: New & Selected Poems, Fractals: New & Selected Poems (Global Literary Festival Award for 'Literary Excellence & Best Book of the Year' 2017; Rabindranath Tagore Literature Prize shortlist 2020); Rain ('Best Books of the Year', The Statesman), Aria (A. K. Ramanujan Translation Award 2009, 'Best Books of the Year', Outlook magazine), and Kaifi Azmi: Poems Nazms (Bloomsbury 2019). Influential anthologies Editor him include The HarperCollins Book of English Poetry, World English Poetry, and Modern English Poetry by Younger Indians, and his work has appeared in TLS, The Financial Times, The Guardian, The Observer, and The Telegraph, and Newsweek, and been broadcast on the BBC, PBS, CNN, IBN, NDTV, All India Radio and Doordarshan.Sen is the only Asian who has been honoured by being asked to deliver the Derek Walcott Lecture and to read at the Nobel Laureate Festival (in 2013). www.sudeepsen.org
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