Achievements & Distinctions

Featured author — international & national

⮚  Represented India (as an invited author/reader/speaker) at innumerable international and national festivals, conferences, and seminars. Invitations ranged from national governments, international organizations & festivals, universities, research institutes, museums, bookshops, galleries, art cafes & bars, among others. Some highlights include — Edinburgh Book Festival, Scottish Poetry Library, Netherbow Theatre, Amnesty International Festival (all Scotland), Royal Festival Hall London, London Word Festival, O2 Wireless Festival / The London Magazine Literary Festival in Hyde Park, Brighton International Poetry Festival, Commonwealth Writers Festival Cambridge, Raiding the Inarticulate Oxford, Broomhill Literary Festival Devon, Morden Tower Newcastle, Arvon Foundation (all UK), Poetry Ireland|Writers’ Museum Dublin, National Library Dublin, Cuisle International Poetry Festival Limerick, Tyrone Guthrie Centre at Annaghmakerrig, The Seamus Heaney Centre for Poetry of Queens University Belfast, Seamus Heaney HomePlace Bellaghy (all Ireland), World Writers Festival (Paris), Calabash 10th Anniversary Festival (Jamaica), Amsterdam Literary Festival, Open Stanza, Salon de Mots, University of Amsterdam, Maastricht Poetry Nights (all The Netherlands), Tranquebar Bookshop Copenhagen & Aarhus University (both Denmark), Lahti International Writers Reunion (Finland), Jerusalem International Poetry Festival & Sha’ar International Poetry Festival, Tel Aviv (both Israel), Struga Poetry Evenings (Macedonia), Villenica Writers Festival, Vilenica; International Publishers Meet, Dane (Slovenia), Prague International Poetry Festival (Czech Republic), Medellin International Poetry Festival (Colombia), Yalova Poetry Nights (Turkey), Sisarang International Poetry School (South Korea), Granada International Poetry Festival (Nicaragua), Yinchuan International Festival (China), Nobel Laureate Festival (St Lucia), Athens World Poetry Festival (Greece), Jaipur Literature Festivals (Jaipur & Belfast), Kala Ghoda Arts Festival, Bangalore Literary Festival, Shillong CALM Festival, New Indian Express Odisha Literary Festival (Bhubaneshwar), Times of India Teflas Literary Festival, New Indian Express Literature Festival (Bhubaneshwar), Kritya International Poetry Festival (Trivandrum & Wardha), Prakriti Poetry Festival (Chennai), National Centre for Performing Arts, Prithvi Theatre, P.E.N. Centre, Crossword Bookshop, Chauraha, Loquations; Tata Mumbai Literature Live Festival (all Bombay), Second Neemrana International Literary Festival (Delhi & Rajasthan), Kovalam Literary Festival (New Delhi & Kerala), India International Centre Festival of the Arts (Delhi), Katha Utsav International, India Habitat Centre (Delhi), Delhi International Arts Festival, IIC-Atlas Literary MiniFest, Sanskriti Kendra, Sahitya Akademi (Delhi & Calcutta), British Council (Delhi, Bombay, Ahmedabad, Dhaka), Siri Fort Auditorium (Delhi), Attic (Delhi), Cervantes Institute (Delhi), ICCR Rabindranath Tagore Centre, Conclave Club (both Calcutta), Amethyst, Amdavadi (Chennai), Darpana Dance Academy / Natarani Theatre, British Library (Ahmedabad), IAS Officers Club, Saptaparni Arts Centre (all Hyderabad), Writers & Readers Festival, Kala Academy, Literatti Bookshop & Hotel Cidade de Goa (all Goa), the universities of Harvard, Columbia, Stanford, Yale, Berkeley, Pennsylvania, Rutgers, South & North Carolina, Virginia, UC Santa Barbara, Texas (all USA), Oxford, Cambridge, London, York, Winchester, Reading (England), Edinburgh, Glasgow, St Andrews (Scotland), Belfast, Dublin, Annaghmakerrig, Sligo (Ireland), Paris, Nice, Carnoules, …… (France), Humbolt, Free, Konstanz (Germany), Barcelona, Oviedo, Zaragoza, Jaca, Mallorca (Spain), Kelaniya, Colombo (Sri Lanka), Dhaka, ULAB  (Bangladesh), Tribhuvan (Nepal), Delhi, Calcutta, Bombay, Hyderabad, Osmania, IIT, JNU (India), among many others.

 honours, awards, scholarships, fellowships

⮚ 2020: EroText (Vintage: Penguin Random House) on the shortlist of the Rabindranath Tagore Literary Prize

⮚ 2020: EroText RePlay on the shortlist of the Sultan Padamsee Award for Playwring

⮚ 2017-19: Jury / Judge for the Jaipur Literature Festival ‘K L Sethia Award for Poetry’ | Winners: Jayanta Mahapatra (2017), Surjit Patar (2018), Salma Rajathi (2019) | Jury: Sudeep Sen, Sukrita Paul Kumar & Namita Gokhale.

⮚ 2018: Distinguished Alumni Award (Hindu College, University of Delhi) for “singular contribution & achievements in the field of literature.”

⮚ 2018: UPL Excellence Award (Best Seller Category) for Postcard from Bangladesh at the 40th anniversary celebrations by the University Press Limited (publishers) in Dhaka.

⮚ 2017: Global Literary Festival Award for ‘Literary Excellence & Best Book of the Year’ for EroText (Vintage: Penguin Random House) by the Asian Academy of Arts.

⮚ 2017: Nominating Jury, $165,000 Yale Windham Cambell Prize (Yale University)

⮚ 2017-18: Jury / Judge for the Jaipur Literature Festival ‘K L Sethia Award for Poetry’ | Winners: Jayanta Mahapatra (2017), Surjit Patar (2018) | Jury: Sudeep Sen, Sukrita Paul Kumar & Namita Gokhale.

⮚ 2016: Fractals: New & Selected Poems | Translations 1980-2015 (UK edition) nominated for the Griffin International Poetry Prize (Canada), Ted Hughes Award (UK), Forward Prize (UK), and T S Eliot Prize (UK) 

⮚ 2016: ‘In Vino Veritas Wine Poem Contest 1st Runner-Up Prize Winner, Struga Poetry Festival (Macedonia). 

⮚  2013: Nobel Laureate Festival invited author — the first Indian, and the only one thus far from the Asian, Australasian-Pacific, African, South American region, to be chosen for the honour. Presented the Derek Walcott Lecture + read from the new book, Fractals: New & Selected Poems|Translations 1978-2013, launched by the Nobel laureate in St Lucia, West Indies.

⮚  2013: Awarded the Government of India Ministry of Culture Senior Fellowship for ‘Outstanding Persons in Culture/Literature’

⮚  2012/13: Pushcart Prize nomination for ‘Choice’ (poem) that appeared in the Prairie Schooner (USA)

⮚  2012: ‘The Bookwallah’ Travelling Residency | AsiaLink & University of Melbourne

⮚  2012: Joint Runners-Up Prize Winner |Stanza Poetry Competition, Poetry Society (UK)

⮚  2012: Lalitha Subbu Memorial Lecture / Chief Guest Hindu College Literary Festival 

⮚  2011: International Writer-in-Residence, Shanghai Writers Association (China)

⮚  2010: Judge|Jury Member (with the UK poet laureate Carol Ann Duffy & Elaine Feinstein) 10th Arvon Foundation International Poetry Competition (London). [First non-UK international invited judge]

⮚ 2010: Invited International Poet reading with Ciaran Carson, Sinead Morrissey & Leontia Flynn at Summer School Evening Poetry & Music (The Seamus Heaney Centre at Queens University in Belfast, Ireland).

⮚  2010: International Writer-in-Residence, The Tyrone Guthrie Centre (Ireland)

⮚  2010: Wolfsberg UBS Artist-in-Residence Fellowship | Swiss Arts Council Pro Helvetia (Switzerland).

⮚  2010: Sanskriti Foundation Writers Fellowship (New Delhi).

⮚  2009: Jorge Zalamea Poetry Award (presented by the Colombian Government of South America & the Embassy of Colombia in New Delhi). Blue Nude, an unpublished book-length work-in-progress, won it in an open international competition that attracted entries worldwide.

⮚  2009: A K Ramanujan Translation Award for Aria (a book of translations of modern South Asian and World Poetry).

⮚  2009: Jury Member, Srinivas Rayaprol Poetry Prize (India) — jointly administered by the S R Trust and the University of Hyderabad’s Department of English, in partnership with The Hindu newspaper group.

⮚  2009: Jury/Editorial Board Member, Katha Poetry E-Book series.

⮚  2008: Ledig House International Writer’s Fellowship (New York). 

⮚  2007: nlpvf Dutch Foundation for Literature international ‘writer-in-residence’ fellowship (Amsterdam). 

⮚  2007: Kathak Literary Award |Kathak Sahitya Puroshkar — for outstanding contribution to Bangladesh’s Literature (Dhaka).

⮚  2005: Judge|Jury Member (with Jayanta Mahapatra & Anita Nair), Dom Moraes Poetry Prize (India) — administered by Monsoon Editions (Yeti Books).

⮚  2004: Awarded the ‘Pleiades Honour’ at the world’s oldest poetry festival in Struga, Macedonia. As the Pleiades title suggests, seven internationally “famous poets” who have made “significant contribution to modern world poetry” are chosen to receive this prestigious honour — the other six on that year’s list included the Nobel prize nominated Chinese poet Bei Dao, Herder European Award winning Romanian poet Ana Blandiana, the Irish poet John F Deane, Arturo Korkuera from Peru, Al Janabi from Iraq, and Philip Johns from Belgium.

⮚  1997-98: Hawthornden Fellowship (UK) for poems included in Postmarked India: New & Selected Poems (HarperCollins).

⮚  1996 Faber & Faber Poetry Grant from the Arvon Foundation (UK).

⮚  1991-93: National Award Winner at the British Council Poetry Society of India ‘All India Poetry Competition’ on a couple of occasions.

⮚  1991: Poetry Circle (Bombay) National Poetry Competition Prize Winner.

⮚  1989: Inlaks Scholarship (India), India Abroad Fellowship, Dupont Broadcast Journalism Award, and Columbia University Graduate Scholarship (all New York) to pursue an MS in Journalism at Columbia University, New York.

⮚  1988: Bread Loaf Writers Scholarship, Bread Loaf Writers Conference, Middlebury College, Vermont, USA.

⮚  1988: Graduate School Scholarship to pursue M.A. in English & Writing, Hollins University, Virginia.

⮚  1987: International Scholarship & Vereen Bell Prize for Creative Writing, Davidson College (USA).

⮚  1986: Gurukul Scholarship from SPIC-MACAY (Kalakshetra, Madras). 

⮚  1986: Jagmohan Pably Prize for best all-round student, Hindu College, University of Delhi

⮚  1986: B N Raina Scholarship for academic excellence, Hindu College, University of Delhi

 Sudeep sen’s work as prescribed text/ or used in university courses 

⮚  Over 15 universities and colleges around the world have taught or currently teach my work at the undergraduate or graduate level literature and cultural studies courses. Additionally, several students pursuing their research degrees based on my work.

 Membership of Academic / Research / Professional Organisations

Member, India International Centre (New Delhi)

Member, India Habitat Centre (New Delhi)

Life Member, Poetry Society of India (New Delhi)

Life Member, Poetry Society (London)

Member, Poetry Book Society (London)

Member, The Royal Society of Literature (London)

Member, CLMP: Council of Literary Magazines and Presses (New York)

Life Member, The Paris Review (New York)

1. Print & Broadcast Media

Sen’s words have appeared in leading international and national newspapers, magazines, journals, and broadcast on radio and television. Some include: the Times Literary Supplement, Newsweek, Guardian, Independent, Observer, Telegraph, Financial Times, Scotsman, Scotland on Sunday, Herald, Evening Standard, New Internationalist, de Volkskrant, De tweede ronde, London Magazine, Poetry Review, Agenda, Ambit, Wolf, Wasafiri, Edinburgh Review, Lines Review, Irish Pages, Literary Review, Harvard Review, World Literature Today, Times of India, Hindu, Hindustan Times, Indian Express, New Indian Express, Tribune, Telegraph, Asian Age, Deccan Chronicle, Statesman, Gentleman, India International Centre Quarterly, Little Magazine, Biblio, Indian Review of Books, New Quest, Outlook, India Today, among others; and broadcast on BBC World (TV), BBC Radio, CNN-IBN, NDTV, PBS, WFUV, GLR, SABC, AIR, Doordarshan, Radio Tehran, Radio Jerusalem, and many others.  

1. Books | Chapbooks by Sudeep Sen

Order of the books page

 I.1 Poetry

2021 Anthropocene: Climate Change, Contagion, Consolation (Penguin Random House)

2021 The Whispering Anklets by Sudeep Sen (with Aditi Mangaldas & Dinesh Khanna) (forthcoming)

2021 Sudeep Sen: Mera Sharir Meri Atma Ka Sautela Beta | My Body is the Stepson of my Soul: Selected Poems introduction & translation into Hindi by Anamika (Vani Prakashan) 

2021 Godhuli Lagna | Cow Dust Hour: Selected Poems introduction by Neelam Mansingh & Surjit Patar |  translation into Punjabi by Akshaya Kumar, Parminder Singh & Vandana Chawla (Autumn Art) 

2020 Sudeep Sen Poems introduction & translation into Malayalam by Syam Sudharkar (Payal Books)

    2019 Kaifi Azmi: New & Selected Translations selected, edited & co-translated by Sudeep Sen (Bloomsbury)

2019 Ausencias | Absences [Spanish & Galician translations] Cervantes Institute 

2018 Lemn Plutitor | Driftwood  [bilingual English-Romanian edition] Biblioteca Judea, Timosoara, Romania 

2018 Grammatica | Grammar [bilingual English-Italian edition] Genoa, Italy 

2017 Path to Inspiration (with Setsuko Klossowska de Rola & Homa Arzhangi) Ahimsa Forum, Lyon, France

2017 Incarnat | Incarnadine Tartuga, Carnoules, France

2015 Fractals: New & Selected Poems | Translations 1980-2015  UK: London Magazine Editions,  USA: Wings, India: Gallerie 

2013 Fractals: New & Selected Poems|Translations 1978-2013 [limited edition] Gallerie

2012 Mediterraneo [Spanish & Galician translations] Cervantes Institute 

2012 Ladakh Gallerie & Tyrone Guthrie Centre (Ireland)

2010 Winter Frances Kiernan Edtion (UK)

2009 Aria [translations] Yeti Books & Monsoon Editions (India) / 2010 Mulfran Press (UK)

2009 Heat Web del Sol (USA)

2005 Rain Gallerie & Mapin (India) / Grantha (USA)

2003 Distracted Geography: An Archipelago of Intent Wings Press (USA) / 2004 Peepal Tree (UK), Indialog (India)

2003 Prayer Flag [CD / poetry & photography] Wings Press (USA) / Peepal Tree (UK)

2002 Monsoon [re-issued in 2005 as Rain] Bengal Foundation (Dhaka) / Aark Arts (London) 

2001 Perpetual Diary Aark Arts, London

2000 A Blank Letter The High Commission of India (Dhaka)

2000 Lines of Desire University of South Carolina / Triad

2000 Almanac University of South Carolina / Triad

2000 In Another Tongue [translations] University of South Carolina / Triad

1999 Retracing American Contours University of South Carolina / Triad

1997 Postmarked India: New & Selected Poems HarperCollins

1995 Dali’s Twisted Hands  Peepal Tree Books, Leeds

1994 Mount Vesuvius in Eight Frames Peepal Tree Books, Leeds

1994 South African Woodcut  Peepal Tree Books, Leeds

1993 Parallel [CD /Audio Cassette] The Scottish Poetry Library, Edinburgh

1993 New York Times The Many Press, London 1995 Rupa, (including Kali in Ottava Rima)

1992 Kali in Ottava Rima Paramount, London 1995 Rupa, (including New York Times)

1990 The Lunar Visitations White Swan Books (New York) 1991 Rupa (New Delhi)

1986 The Man in the Hut [limited hand-bound edition] Davidson, North Carolina (USA)

1983 Leaning Against the Lamp-Post / 1996 [reprinted] Triad & University of South Carolina (USA)

I.2 Prose

2021 Small Tales from my Kitchen Table (with Dinesh Khanna) (forthcoming)

2021 Selected Criticism & Reviews Vol 3 (Classix) (forthcoming)

2021 Selected Essays & Non-Fiction Vol 2 (Classix) (forthcoming)

2021 Selected Interviews & Coversations Vol 1(Classix)

202? Tracing Lines: Selected Prose (Essays & Criticism) (work-in-progress)

2016 EroText Vintage: Penguin Random House 

2002 Postcards from Bangladesh (with Tanvir Fattah & Kelley Lynch), University Press Limited

1999 BodyText (Harrow: London, UK)

I.3 Translator

2020 My Typerwriter is My Piano: Selected Poems by Anamika | edited & co-translated by Sudeep Sen (Aark Arts)

2019 Kaifi Azmi: New & Selected Translations | selected, edited & co-translated by Sudeep Sen (Bloomsbury) 

2011/2009 Aria Yeti Books & Monsoon Editions (India) & 2011 Mulfran Press (UK) | translated by Sudeep Sen 

2005 Love Poems by Shamshur Rahman | edited & translated by Sudeep Sen London: Aark Arts

2003 Spellbound & Other Poems by Fazal Shahabuddin | edited & translated by Sudeep Sen London: Aark Arts

2001 Love & Other Poems by Aminur Rahman | edited & translated by Sudeep Sen London: Aark Arts

2000 In Another Tongue University of South Carolina / Triad | translated by Sudeep Sen 

I.4 Editor/Co-editor

2021 Contemporary English Poetry by Indians (forthcoming August 15, 2020 | Pippa Rann/Penguin Random House)

2020 Modern English Poetry by Younger Indians (Sahitya Akademi)

2015 World English Poetry (Dhaka: Bengal Foundation)

2013 The Prairie Schooner Feast Anthology of Poetry by Indian Women USA: University of Nebraska

2012 The HarperCollins Book of English Poetry (HarperCollins)

2012 The Yellow Nib Modern English Poetry by Indians (Belfast: Yellow Nib) Seamus Heaney Centre for Poetry, Queens University

Another English: Anglophone Poems from Aroundthe World  (USA: Tupelo Press & Poetry Foundation) India Editor: Sudeep Sen | Editors: Catherine Bennet & Tiphanie Yanique

2011 Poetry Review Centrefold Portfolio of Indian Poetry (UK: Poetry Review)

2010 World Literature Today Writing from Modern India (USA: University of Okhlahoma)

2009 The Literary Review Indian Poetry (USA: Farleigh Dickinson University)

2006 Biblio South Asian English Poetry [a portfolio] (New Delhi: Biblio)

2006–present Atlas: New Writing, Art & Image London/New York/New Delhi: Aark Arts 

2005 Sestet: Six New Writers Berlin: Free University & London: Aark Arts

2004 Midnight’s Grandchildren: Post-Independence English Poetry from India (Macedonia: Struga Poetry Evenings) [in Macedonian translation]

2002 Dash: Four New German Writers (Berlin: Humboldt University & London: Aark Arts)

2002 Shawkat Haider: A Day with Destiny (Dhaka: Azeez)

2001 Hayat Saif: Selected Poems (Dhaka: Pathak Samabesh)

2001 The British Council Book of Emerging English Poets from Bangladesh (Dhaka: The British Council)

2001-4: Six Seasons Review (Dhaka: University Press Limited & London: Aark Arts)

1998 Index for Censorship [Poems] Songs of Partition [a portfolio] (London: Index for Censorship)   

1996 Lines Review Twelve Modern Young Indian Poets (Edinburgh: Lines Review)

1995 Wasafiri Contemporary Writing from India, South Asia & The Diaspora (University of London)

I.5 Selected Sen’s poetry in translation as books/chapbooks/broadsheets

2020 My Body is the Stepson of my Soul | Sudeep Sen Selected Poems (Hindi) | trans Anamika (Vani Prakashan)

2020 Godhuli Lagna: Cowdust Hour | Sudeep Sen Selected Poems (Punjabi) | foreword & afterword by Surjit Patar & Neelam Mansingh | trans Akshaya Kumar, Parminder Singh Aziz, Vandana Chawla Garg (Autumn Arts)

2020 Sudeep Sen Kavithakal | Sudeep Sen Selected Poems (Malayalam) | trans Syam Sudharkar (Payal Books)

2020 Varsha | Rain by Sudeep Sen (Hindi) | trans. Savita Singh (Rajkamal) (forthcoming)

2020 Regen | Rain (Dutch) | trans. Susan Ridder (forthcoming) 

2020 Sudeep Sen: Selected Poems (Croatian) | trans. Miroslav Kirin (Fraktura) (forthcoming)

2019 Ausencias | Absences (Spanish) | trans. Herreo, Castano, Jaime, Aranda (Nicaragua)

2018 Lemn Plutitor | Driftwood (Romanian) | trans. Melissa Mugur (Biblioteca Judeteana Timis, Timosoara)

2017 Incarnat | Incarnadine [French / trans. Bernard Turle] (France: Tartuga)

2017 Vaikus | Silence (Estonian) | trans. Mathura M Lattik (Estonia: Allikaaarne)

2017 100 Poems from Bangladesh [English translations / eds. Dr Peter & Anette Horn] Edition Delta, Stuttgart, Germany

2012 Mediterraneo [Spanish|Galician / trans. M Dolores Herrero, Yolanda Castano & Raul Jaime] Cervantes Institute 

2012 Baniano: Figueira de Bangla|Banyan [Galician / trans. Yolanda Castano] Concello da Coruna, Spain  

2009 Triztan’s Timex [Norwegian / trans. Birger Huse]

2009 Cyclical [Polish / trans. Malgorzata Wilk & Karolina Janus]

2009 Geographies [French / trans. Dominique Vitalyos & Dominique de Gasquet]

2006 Lluvia|Rain [Spanish / trans. M Dolores Herrero]

2005-present Sudeep Sen ki Kavitaye [Hindi / trans. Anamika / work-in-progress]

2004 Alexander’s Soil: Selected Poems [Macedonian / trans. Zoran Anchevski]

2002 La Sencilla Malta|The Single Malt [Spanish / trans. Raul Jaime]

2003 Barsha|Rain [Bengali / trans. Aminur Rahman]

2003 Prarthana Pataka [Bengali / trans. Aminur Rahman]

2000 Ekti Khali Chithi [Bengali / trans. Aminur Rahman]

2002 Remembering Hiroshima Tonight [German / trans. Andrea Vialli]

20??  Ilhan Berk and other poems [Turkish / trans. Nese Yasin]

20??  Remembering Hiroshima Tonight [Greek / trans. Kariofilis Mitsakis]

20??  BodyText [Hebrew / trans. Dan Daor]

20??  Lines of Desire [Hebrew / trans. Amir Or]

20??  Lines of Desire [Romanian / trans. Curtea d Arges Poetry Festival committee] 

20??  Lines of Desire & Other Poems [Korean / trans. Kim Ku Sul & Park Hae Won]

20??  Prayer Flag [Hungarian / trans. Domokos Johanna]

I.6 Important anthologies & publications featuring poetry /prose of Sudeep Sen

2020 What Where We Are Now (Manchester Metropolitan University), ed. Carol Ann Duffy

2020 Modern English Poetry by Younger Indians (Sahitya Akademi), ed. Sudeep Sen

2020 Indian Poetry for 365 Days: An English-Hindi Anthology (HarperCollins), ed. & trans. Gulzar [forthcoming]

2020 A Pocketful of Wry: Indian Poets Also Laugh (Penguin), eds. Arundhati Subramaniam & Jerry Pinto [forthcoming]

2020 Singing in Bad Times: A Global Anthology of Poetry Under Lockdown (Penguin Random House), eds. K Satchidanandan & Nishi Chawla [forthcoming]

2020 Hibiscus: Poems that Heal and Empower (Hawakaal), Eds. Sengupta, Pickering & Mazumdar

2020 Touched: 2020 An Anthology of Voices Writing on Creativity and Madness, eds. Jhilmil Breckenridge & Sukrita Paul Kumar [forthcoming]

2020 The Yearbook of Indian Poetry in English (Hawakal), eds Vinita Agrawal & Sukrita Paul Kumar [forthcoming]

2020 Open Your Eyes: Climate Change Anthology ed. Vinita Agrawal [forthcoming]

2020 Corona Crisis: Writings from the Debris (HarperCollins), ed. Vikram Chopra [forthcoming]

2020 Covid 19 World Anthology of Poetry (Kistrech, Kenya) ed. Christopher Okemwa [forthcoming]

2019 What is Time?: An Anthology of Indian and Indian Diaspora Writing (USA: Red Hen) eds. Ravi Shankar, Anjum Hasan & Sampurna Chattarji [forthcoming]

2019 Redemptive Musings: Indian Poetry Anthology ed. Bina Singh

2019 Dhaka Anthology of World Poetry (Dhaka: Adorn Books), eds. by Aminur Rahman & Bilkis Mansoor

2018 Name Me a Word: Indian Writers Reflect on Writing (Yale), ed Meena Alexander

2018 Filigree: Contemporary Black British Poetry (Leeds: Peepal Tree), ed. Nii Parkes 

2018 There’s Something in the Air: 70 Life Stories from India & Italy (Juggernaut), eds. by Lorenzo Angeloni & Maria Elletra Verone 

2018 The Best Indian Poetry 2018 (RLFPA Editions), ed. Linda Ashok

2018 Dhaka Anthology of World Poetry (Dhaka: Adorn Books), eds. by Aminur Rahman & Bilkis Mansoor

2017 Poems in an Exhibition: An Ekphrasis Anthology ed. Sylvia Vetta (Oxfordfolio) 

2017 Rochford Street Review Anthology, ed. Les Wicks (Australia)

2017 ‘Allepo’ (poem), part of ‘Migration’ exhibit at the Pune Biennale, curator Bina Sarkar Ellias

2016 The Poet’s Quest for God (London: Eyewear), eds. Todd Swift, Oliver Brennan, Kalley Davio & Cate Myddleton-Evans 

2016 Lotosi od neona i delirija. (Croatia Rijeka: Studio TiM), eds. Lora Tomaš & Marijana Janjić

2015 World English Poetry (Dhaka: Bengal Foundation), ed. Sudeep Sen

2014 Becoming Poets: The Asian English Experience (Bern: Peter Lang), ed. Agnes S L Lam

2014 Jora Sanko: Select English Poems by Bengali Poets (Poetry Society of India), eds. M Gandhi & K Sengupta 

2013 Another Country: An Anthology of Post-Independence Indian Poetry in English (Sahitya Akademi), ed. Arundhati Subramanium

2013 The Big Bridge Anthology of Contemporary Indian Poets (Big Bridge, USA), ed. Menka Shivdasani 

2013 Indo-Australian Anthology of Contemporary Poetry (Authorspress), eds. Rob Harle, Sunil & Sangeeta Sharma

2013 Asian Poetry in English (University of Hong Kong), ed. Agnes Lam [forthcoming]

20?? Seven Indian English Poets in Hindi Translation, ed. & trans. Savita Singh [forthcoming]

2012 The HarperCollins Book of English Poetry (HarperCollins) ed. Sudeep Sen

2012 The Yellow Nib Modern English Poetry by Indians (Belfast: Queen’s University) ed. Sudeep Sen

2012 Ten Young Indian Poets in English (Kathmandu/New Delhi: Nirala), ed. Jayanta Mahapatra

2010 Initiate: An Oxford Anthology of New Writing (Oxford: Blackwell) inro. Jon Stallworthy / eds. Clare Morgan & Rita Ricketts / ed. panel: Jane Draycott, Jonathan Evans, Frank Egerton

2010 World Literature Today Writing from Modern India (University of Oklahoma) ed. Sudeep Sen 

2010 The Book of Worst Meals (USA: Serving House Books), eds. Walter Cummins & Thomas E Kennedy

2010 Red: Contemporary Black British Poetry (Leeds: Peepal Tree), ed. Kwame Dawes

2010 The Golden Boat: Anthology of Indian River Poems, (New Delhi: India International Centre & Yoda Press), ed. K Satchidanandan

2010 Indivisible: An Anthology of Contemporary South Asian American Poetry (USA: University of Arkansas Press) eds. Neelanjana Banerjee, Summi Kaipa & Pireeni Sundaralingam

2010 Top 10 Contemporary World Poets (Dhaka: Adorn Publication) ed. & trans. Aminur Rahman 

2009 Borders (Pune: Open Space | CCDS) ed. Priya Sarukkai Chabria

2009 Leela — An Erotic Play of Verse and Art (Collins), ed. Alka Pande

2009 The Literary Review Indian Poetry ed. Sudeep Sen (TLR/Fairleigh Dickinson University)

2008 Language for a New Century: Contemporary Poetry from the Middle East, Asia & Beyond (New York/London: W.W.Norton) eds. Tina Chang, Nathalie Handel & Ravi Shankar | Foreword by Carolyn Forche

2008 Writing Across Borders (writers.ink) ed. Niaz Zaman

2008 Of Rickshaws and Rickshawallahs (University Press Ltd) ed. Niaz Zaman

2008 Here and Now: Contemporary Poetry of Delhi (New Delhi: Delhi Poetree)

2007 New Writing 15 (London: Granta & British Council) eds. Bernardine Evaristo & Maggie Gee

2007 Findings on Ice (Amsterdam & Baden: Lars Muller Publishers) eds. Astrid van Baalen & Hester Aardse 

2007 I Indialand (Torsby, Sweden: Heidruns Forlag) ed. Bengt Berg

2007 Best of Gallerie 1997-2007 (Mumbai: Gallerie) ed. Bina Sarkar Ellias

2007 50 Poets 50 Poems (Pune: Open Space | CCDS) ed. Priya Sarukkai Chabria

2006 All Poetry is Protest (Pune: Open Space | CCDS) ed. Priya Sarukkai Chabria

2006 Ninety-Nine Words (Orissa: Panchabati Publications) ed. Manu Dash

2005 Indian Love Poems (New York: Knopf / London: Everyman Library) ed. Meena Alexander

2005 Confronting Love: Contemporary Indian Love Poems (Penguin India) eds. Jerry Pinto & Arundhati Subramaniam 

2005 Masala (London: Macmillan) ed. Debjani Chatterjee

2003 Midnight’s Grandchildren: Contemporary English Poetry from India ([in Macedonian] SPE, Macedonia) ed. S Sen

2003 Gods, Mongrels & Demons (London: Bloomsbury) ed. Angus Calder

2002 Home & Away: Diaspora Voices (London: Index for Censorship) ed. Ursula Owen & Stephen Watts

2002 From Briarwood to Barishal to Bangladesh (London Arts UK) ed Sanchita Islam

2002 Poems & Sources (USA: Fairleigh Dickinson University) ed Thomas Kennedy & Walter Cummins

2001 Post Independence Voices in South Asian Writings (Doaba, New Delhi) eds. Malashri Lal, Alamgir Hashmi & Victor Ramraj

2000 The Redbeck Anthology of South Asian Poetry (Redbeck UK) ed. Debjani Chatterjee

2000 Edinburgh: An Intimate City (Edinburgh Council Scotland) eds B Fraser & E Greig

2000 Vilenica International Writers’ Anthology ([in Slovenian] Drustvo Slovenskih Pisateljev, Ljubljana) ed. Itzok Osojnik 

2000 Institutionalizing English Studies: The Post-Colonial/Post-Independence Challenge (Toronto: Ariel) eds. Gauri Viswanathan & Victor Ramraj

1999 Now Read On: Multicultural Reader (Routledge London/New York) eds. John McRae & Edwin Vethamani

1999 Chai (Storey Books Vermont USA) ed. Diana Rosen

1998 Agenda Anthology of Poems Essays Translations (Agenda London) eds. Anita Money & William Cookson

1998 Post-Colonial Discourse in South Asia (Alif Cairo) ed. Ferial Ghazoul & Stephen Alter

1998 Poeti Indiani Del Novecento [di lingua inglese] ([in Italian] Supernova Venice) ed. Shaul Bassi

1998 Songs [Poems] of Partition (Index for Censorship, London) ed. Ursula Owen & Judith Hall Vidal

1998 Ariel 50th Anniversay of India & Pakistan’s Independence (Toronto) eds. Malashri Lal, Alamgir Hashmi & Victor Ramraj

1997 India 1997 With Affection (London Magazine UK) ed Alan Ross

1997 Fifty Years of Independence: Poetry from the India Sub-Continent (Acumen UK) ed. Patricia Oxley

1996 Lines Review Twelve Modern Young Indian Poets (Lines Review, Edinburgh) ed. Tessa Ransford / guest ed. S Sen

1996 Vox: New Indian Fiction (Sterling Bombay) ed. Jeet Thayil

1995 Wasafiri Contemporary Writing from India, South Asia & The Diaspora  (Wasafiri/ QMW College, University of London) ed. Susheila Nasta / guest ed. Sudeep Sen

1995 The English Review Contemporary Poets 12 (Oxford University/Philip Allan Publishers) eds. John Carey & Cicely Havely 

[19??] Work (Katabasis London) ed. Dinah Livingstone

[19??] Home (Katabasis London) ed. Kathleen McPhilemy

1993 An Anthology of New Indian English Poetry (Rupa New Delhi) ed. Makarand Paranjape

1992 Barnet Poetry Anthology (Barnet Council London) eds. Dannie Abse, Katherine Gallaghar, Debjani Chatterjee

I.7 Important anthologies & publications featuring poetry translations by Sudeep Sen

The translations that appear in the two books Aria and In Another Tongue were first featured in: Agenda, Atlas, Best of Gallerie 1997-2007, Daily Star, Gallerie International, Modern Poetry in Translation, Molossus, New Internationalist, New Quest, Independent, Poetry International Web, Rotterdam PIW Chapbook, Shine Magazine, Six Seasons Review, SPE Editions, and broadcast on bbc, air, among others. They also appeared as free-standing books, chapbooks, broadsheets, posters, postcards; or have been featured (or are forthcoming) in important anthologies: 

2020 Indian Poetry for 365 Days: An English-Hindi Anthology (HarperCollins), ed. & trans. Gulzar [forthcoming]

2020 My Typewriter is My Piano: Selected Poems by Anamika (Aark Arts)

2010 The Essential Tagore, eds. Fakrul Alam and Radha Chakravarty (Santiniketan: Visva-Bharati & Cambridge: Harvard University Press); 

2010 Interior Decoration: Poems by Women from 10 Indian Languages, eds. Ritu Menon, Vasanth Kannabiran, Ammu Joseph, and Volga (New Delhi: Women’s World India & Women Unlimited);

2010 Golden Boat: An Anthology of Indian River Poems, ed. K Satchidanandan (New Delhi: India International Centre & Yoda Press);

2010 Top 10 Contemporary World Poets (Dhaka: Adorn Publication) ed. & trans. Aminur Rahman 

2009 Fire in the Soul: 100 Poems for Human Rights, ed. Dinyar Godrej (Oxford: New Internationalist & London: Amnesty International);

2009 Poetry International festival chapbook by Mangalesh Dabral (Rotterdam: Poetry International); 

Banalata Sen by Jibanananda Das (London: Aark Arts);

Diptych by Gulzar (London: Aark Arts);

Love Poems by Shamsur Rahman (London: Aark Arts);

Spellbound & Other Poems by Fazal Shahabuddin (London: Aark Arts);

Love & Other Poems by Aminur Rahman (London: Aark Arts);

Selected Poems by Zoran Anchevski (electronic edition by Shine Magazine); 

Strategy of Defeat: Selected Poems 1984-2000 by Zoran Anchevski (Skopje: Jugoreklam);

Anthology of Macedonian P.E.N. Poets, ed. Zoran Anchevski (Skopje: Macedonian P.E.N. Centre & Blesok);

Parabolas and Capriccios: Selected Poems by Petko Dabeski (Struga Poetry Evening Editions);

Poetry International Web online [http://india.poetryinternationalweb.org/piw_cms/cms/cms_module/index.php?obj_id=14009];

I.8 Films by Sudeep Sen

Directed and co-directed several short films and documentaries, some include: Rhythm, White Shoe Story, Woman of a Thousand Fires, Babylon is Dying: Diary of Third Street (which won a student Emmy Award nomination), Flying Home among others.

I.9 Stage Show/Theatre/Radio Play/Film by Sudeep Sen

⮚Mount Vesuvius in Eight Frames ([radio play] BBC Radio UK/ Poetry by Sudeep Sen / Produced by Salim Tahir / Music by David Sylvian / Cast: Martha Kapos, Stephen Watts & S Sen)

⮚Vesuvius ([stage play] Nehru Centre of the Indian High Commission, London / Poetry by Sudeep Sen / Produced by Border Crossing / Directed by Michael Walling / Cast: Anjali Jayadev & M Walling)

⮚BodyText ([stage play] Harrow Arts Council, UK / Written by by Sudeep Sen / Produced by Border Crossing / Directed by Michael Walling / Cast: Shreya Dave & M Walling)

⮚Flying Home ([film] Produced by Border Crossing & Arts Council, UK/ Poetry by Sudeep Sen / Directed by Michael Walling / Photography by David Wheeler)

⮚Midnight’s Grandchildren: Contemporary Indian Poetry in English ([stage show] Struga Poetry Evening (an international poetry festival), Macedonia / Directed by Sudeep Sen / Poetry read by Indian poets and Macedonian actors / Music by Macedonian ensemble) 

⮚Texture Tone Topography: Poetry & Jazz ([stage show] India International Centre, New Delhi / Poetry by Sudeep Sen / Cast: Tom Alter, Rajeev Raja, Sudeep Sen)

⮚Rain ([stage show] National tour — (The British Council, Delhi), (The Times of India Kala Ghoda Arts Festival, Bombay), Darpana Arts Academy/Natarani, Ahmedabad), & others in Calcutta, Madras, Bangalore, Hyderabad, Pune / Written by Sudeep Sen / Cast: Tom Alter & Sudeep Sen + musicians)

⮚T3 & Woman ([stage show] The Attic, New Delhi / Poetry & Fiction by Sudeep Sen / Music by Srinibas, Dance by Moumita Ghosh, Dramatic Enactment by Averee Chaurey, Songs by Jayati Ghosh

⮚J3: Jibanananda Jazz Jugalbandi ([stage show] IAS Officers Club, Hyderabad / Poetry by Sudeep Sen & Hoshang Merchant / Music by Charminar Jazz Collective

⮚[Wo]man ([stage show] The India International Centre Experience: A Festival of the Arts (New Delhi) / Poetry & Fiction by Sudeep Sen / Vocals by Vidya Rao / Flute by Srinibas / Dance by Moumita Ghosh / Bengali reading by Averee Chaurey

⮚Rain ([stage show] The India International Centre Experience: A Festival of the Arts (New Delhi) / Poetry by Sudeep Sen / Dance by Vijayalakshmi / Music by Mac Quayle

⮚EroText RePlay ([stage play] adapted by David Zinder 

III. Works/Books on Sudeep Sen

II.1 Selected books/monographs on Sudeep Sen

2020 Sudeep Sen: The Writer, The Artist & His Practice | ed. Rama Nair (forthcoming)

2020 Sudeep Sen: Selected Essays, Criticism, Reviews & Interviews, (Classix) Essays by William Radice, Jane Draycott, Jenny Lewis, Brinda Bose, Ratna Raman, Gautam Chakravarti et el. 

1997 Postmarked India: New & Selected Poems | Critical Introduction by Kwame Dawes (HarperCollins)

1996 Sudeep Sen: A Bio-Bibliographical Critical Sourcebook by Kwame Dawes (University of South Carolina)

Sudeep Sen: A Monograph by Philip Drury (work-in-progress)

Selected Essays & Reviews on Sudeep Sen ed. Katarina Magdalena Dorn (work-in-progress) 

The Art of Sudeep Sen ed. M Dolores Herrero (work-in-progress)

II.2 Some important reference/critical books featuring Sudeep Sen

2020 Sudeep Sen: The Writer, The Artist & His Practice, ed. Rama Nair (forthcoming)

2020 Sudeep Sen: Interview, Reviews, Views Volumes 1-3 (Classix) 

2020 Sudeep Sen | PhD by Queen Sarkar 

2019 Name Me a Word: Indian Writers Reflect on Writing (Yale), ed Meena Alexander

2014 Becoming Poets: The Asian English Experience (Peter Lang, Bern), ed. Agnes A L Lam

2013 Contemporary British Literature: Post-1990s A Critical Study (Prestige Books), eds. Rama Nair & Parimala Kulkarni

2012 The English Language Poetry of the South Asians: A Critical Analysis (McFarland & Co. USA) ed. Mitali Pati Wong

2010 Contemporary Indian Poetry in English (Sahitya Akademi: New Delhi) edited by Mohan Ramanan, Afeefa Banu & Pramod Nayar

2009 Poetry, Politics and Culture: Essays on Indian Texts and Contexts (Routledge: London/NewYork/New Delhi) by Akshaya Kumar

2009 Representations of a Culture in Indian English Poetry (Indian Institute of Advanced Studies) by Mita Biswas

2007 Encyclopaedia of Indian Literature (Anmol Publications) ed. Ravi Narayan

2006 Cambridge Guide to Literature in English (Cambridge University Press: Cambridge) ed. Dominic Head

2006 Silent Tongues: Writings in Contemporary Indian Poetry (Authors Press: New Delhi) by Rabindra K Swain

2005 Routledge Encyclopaedia of South East Asian Literatures (Routledge: London/New York) eds. Benson & Connolly

2004 Alexandria: Real and Imagined (London: Ashgate) eds. Anthony Hirst & M S Silk

2004 The Oxford English Literary History [Vol 13, 1948-2000] (Oxford University Press: Oxford) ed. Bruce King

2004 Writing Across Worlds: Contemporary Writers Talk (Routledge: London/New York) ed. Susheila Nasta

2003 Post-Colonial Studies: The Essential Glossary (Arnold: London) ed. John Thieme

2002 Routledge Companion to Black British Culture (Routledge: London/New York) ed. Allison Donnell 

2000 Pears Cyclopaedia (Penguin: London/New York) ed Chris Cook

2001 Trends and Techniques in Contemporary Indian English Poetry (Prestige: New Delhi) ed. Rama Nair

2001 Indian English Literature 1980-2000 (Pencraft International: New Delhi) eds. M K Naik & Shyamala A Narayan

2000 Modern Indian Poetry in English: Critical Studies (Creative Books) eds. Nila Shah & Pramod K Nayyar

2000 Commonwealth & Post-Colonial Literatures (British Council: London) ed. John Thieme

2000 Student’s Britannica India (Britannica) eds. Dale Hoiberg & Indu Ramchandani

1999 Now Read On: Multicultural Reader (Routledge, London/New York) eds. John McRae & Edwin Vethamani

1999 Who’s Who of Indian Writers (Sahitya Akademi: New Delhi) ed. K C Dutt

1998 Journal of Contemporary History (Sage) by Shyamala Narayan

II.3 Individual Reviews/Essays/Interviews

See entries and listings in Sudeep Sen: A Bio-Bibliographical Critical Sourcebook by Kwame Dawes (Sumter: University of South Carolina)

Selected Web/Internet Links

Sudeep Sen Official Website

www.sudeepsen.net

Atlas [magazine] & Aark Arts [publishers]

Atlas edited by Sudeep Sen

www.atlasaarkarts.net

Royal Festival Hall Poetry Library Archive of Atlas

http://www.poetrymagazines.org.uk/magazine/index.asp?id=91

The Guardian review of Atlas 01

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2007/feb/17/featuresreviews.guardianreview13

The Guardian review of Atlas 02

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2007/aug/11/featuresreviews.guardianreview22

Sudeep Sen’s poetry

Heat by Sudeep Sen [E-Chapbook published by Web Del Sol]

http://chapbooks.webdelsol.com/worldvoices/sen/sen.html

World Literature Today (USA) interview

http://www.ou.edu/worldlit/Sudeep.html

Peepal Tree Press Author Feature

http://www.peepaltreepress.com/author_display.asp?au_id=71

Poetry International Web [Rotterdam, The Netherlands]

http://india.poetryinternationalweb.org/piw_cms/cms/cms_module/index.php?obj_id=14009

Poetry HyperText Project [London]

http://www.btinternet.com/~carpenter/hpwp/workshops/clock4.htm

Poem Hunter

http://www.poemhunter.com/sudeep-sen/biography/

‘Talking Poetry’ Open Space

http://www.openspaceindia.org/22_sudeep_sen.htm

Drunken Boat USA [Issue 10 Spring 2009]

http://drunkenboat.com/db10/01asi/sen.html

international exchange for poetic invention Sudeep Sen poetry

http://poeticinvention.blogspot.com/2007/04/sudeep-sen.html

Aria review by Jenny Lewis on Molossus

http://molossus.wordpress.com/2009/08/19/the-transcending-of-tongues-jenny-lewis-on-sudeep-sen/

Aria named as one of Outlook magazine ‘Best Books of the Year 2009’

http://www.outlookindia.com/article.aspx?263357

The International Literary Quarterly

http://www.interlitq.org/staff/sudeep_sen/bio.php

The Literary Review staff [Sudeep Sen Advisory Editor]

http://www.theliteraryreview.org/staff.html

George Szirtes Website [The Guestbook 7: Sudeep Sen]

http://www.georgeszirtes.co.uk/index.php?page=notes

Eyewear edited by Todd Swift

http://toddswift.blogspot.com/2007/05/poem-by-sudeep-sen.html

‘Feminine Musk’ by Sudeep Sen in Nth Position

http://www.nthposition.com/femininemusk.php

Sudeep Sen Cover Feature in Polish Magazine Rita Baum

http://e-czytanka.blogspot.com/2009/07/sudeep-sen-in-polish-magindie-w-ricie.html

Letters of Glass: Three poems by Sudeep Sen

http://asiawrites.blogspot.com/2010/03/from-letters-of-glass-poems-by-sudeep.html Short Biography

Sudeep Sen [www.sudeepsen.net] is widely recognised as a major new generation voice in world literature and one of “the finest younger English-language poets in the international literary scene. A distinct voice: carefully modulated and skilled, well measured and crafted” (BBC Radio). He is fascinated not just by language but the possibilities of language” (Scotland on Sunday). He read English Literature for an honours degree at the University of Delhi & as an Inlaks Scholar received an MS from the Journalism School at Columbia University (New York). His awards, fellowships & residencies include: Hawthornden Fellowship (UK), Pushcart Prize nomination (USA), BreadLoaf (USA), Pleiades (Macedonia), nlpvf  Dutch Foundation for Literature (Amsterdam), Ledig House (New York), Wolfsberg UBS Pro Helvetia (Switzerland), Sanskriti (New Delhi), and Tyrone Guthrie Centre (Ireland). He was international writer-in-residence at the Scottish Poetry Library (Edinburgh) & visiting scholar at Harvard University. Sen’s dozen books include: Postmarked India: New & Selected Poems (HarperCollins), Distracted Geographies, Rain, Aria (A K Ramanujan Translation Award), Letters of Glass, and Blue Nude: Poems & Translations 1979-2014 (Jorge Zalamea International Poetry Award) is forthcoming. He has also edited several important anthologies, including: The HarperCollins Book of English Poetry, The Literary Review Indian Poetry, World Literature Today Writing from Modern India, Midnight’s Grandchildren: Post-Independence English Poetry from India, and others. His poems, translated into over twenty-five languages, have featured in international anthologies by Penguin, HarperCollins, Bloomsbury, Routledge, Norton, Knopf, Everyman, Random House, Macmillan, and Granta. His poetry and literary prose have appeared in the Times Literary Supplement, Newsweek, Guardian, Observer, Independent, Financial Times, London Magazine, Literary Review, Harvard Review, Telegraph, Hindu, Outlook, India Today, and broadcast on bbc, cnn-ibn, ndtv & air. Sen’s recent work appears in New Writing 15 (Granta) and Language for a New Century (Norton). He is the editorial director of Aark Arts and editor of Atlas [www.atlasaarkarts.net]. His new book is called Fractals: New & Selected Poems|Translations 1978-2013. He is the first Asian to be honoured with an invitation to deliver the Derek Walcott Lecture and read his poetry at the Nobel Laureate Festival in St Lucia in January, 2013. The same year, he was awarded the Government of India Ministry of Culture Senior Fellowship for ‘Outstanding Persons in Culture/Literature’

Selected Comments/Reviews of Sudeep Sen’s Books

Fractals gathers more than three decades of poetry from one of India’s most technically gifted poets working in English. Sen’s poetic scope and knowledge of form and metre will dazzle poetry lovers while drawing in more casual admirers with his sophistication of language and range of topics. Fractals is an important retrospective collection from a poet even now just reaching the height of his powers. 

— World Literature Today (USA)

‘I read Rain with considerable admiration and pleasure. It is a word-perfect collection and its subject matter is both the measure of the rain and the spoken line’. 

—Amit Chaudhuri in The Statesman ‘Best Book of the Year’

‘Sudeep Sen’s poems are a present which bring — like all true poetry — so much companionship’.

—John Berger, Booker Prize Winner and author of The Ways of Seeing (Penguin/BBC)

‘A wonderful poet’. — Yehuda Amichai, Selected Poems (Faber & Faber)

‘A highly sophisticated poet’. — Kaifi Azmi, author of Selected Poems (Viking Penguin)

‘A gifted  poet …. I think everyone who works in Indian literature in English should thank him for all he has done’. — Dom Moraes in Sunday Midday

Prayer Flag is an unique object of art that reveals two intrinsically linked artistic sides of Sen’s work and talent: words and images. Perfection of musicality, tone and cadence is tuned to produce the finest resonance… a gift to treasure from a master artist. — Tom Alter in Biblio

‘A rich, fluent, cosmopolitan voice’. — Peter Bradshaw in London Evening Standard

‘Sen has emerged as a leading poet of the English language — has a painter’s eye when depicting a scene [commands] superb skill’. — Khushwant Singh in Sunday Observer

‘A poet of technical facility … has produced a large body of work’.

— Bruce King in The Oxford English Literary History (OUP)

‘Sen [has] extended the range of Indian verse in English to encompass a variety of alternative views of language, history and culture’. — Chris Cook ed., Pears Cyclopaedia (Penguin)

‘Sen is an eclectic poet whose understated work eschews fashionable trends, while exhibiting considerable technical virtuosity and versatility’. 

— John Thieme in Cambridge Guide to Literature in English (Cambridge University Press)

‘Sen is amongst the finest younger English-language poets in the international literary scene. A distinct voice: carefully modulated and skilled, well measured and crafted’. — Gregor Robertson on BBC Radio

‘I’ve enjoyed reading Distracted Geographies — the spare language gives importance and adds significance to each word. In fact, the words ripple in the surrounding silence, like stones dropped into a still pond. The poem moves forward in a restrained, contemplative manner (a relief from much contemporary histrionics), and draws the reader into its emotional landscape. I especially enjoyed the images and references drawn from the world of science — as Calvino said: the literature of the third millennium must engage with science if it is to remain relevant and vital’. — Tom Petsinis, author of The French Mathematician (Penguin)

‘From a wet Scottish morning to the lonely moment of self-discovery in a Gothic atmosphere symbolizing stillness, Distracted Geographies: An Archipelago of Intent captures all with the piercing precision of language, tonal lyricism, and unique scientific patterning of the book’s architecture. Visionary, sensual and transcendental — we have to thank Sudeep Sen for a truly remarkable book — a tour de force’. — The Independent

Selected Comments/Reviews on Sudeep Sen’s Translations in Aria

‘In this artfully put together anthology, Sen translates from many languages. Sen’s own translation of Jibanananda Das’s Banalata Sen is luminous enough to carry the entire book.’

— Arshia Sattar in Outlook ‘The Best Books of the Year 2009’

‘Sudeep Sen’s marvellous poetic career makes him the outstanding literary representative of his generation. The rich range and resonance of his work covers his poems, translations, editing, anthologizing, and discursive prose. An unerring poetic intelligence works here.’ —  Dilip Chitre, Tukaram: Says Tuka (Penguin)

‘These elegant and precise translations from various languages are like tying up a bunch of subtle fragrances. Common concerns of humanity are expressed differently by each poet so one doesn’t feel a stranger among strangers.’  —  Gulzar, Selected Poems (Viking Penguin)

‘Translation is a supremely hard task and often a thankless one. Sudeep Sen, a distinguished poet in his own right, accomplishes this task magnificently, translating as only a poet can, for to translate poetry, it should go without saying, one must be a poet of distinction.’   

— Daniel Weissbort, founder-editor with Ted Hughes, Modern Poetry in Translation 

‘For Bengali poetry to take its rightful place in the international world of letters, it needs an international translator. Who better than Sudeep Sen? Add to the Bengali the translations from Hindi, Urdu and many other languages from all four corners of the world, and you have a wondrous, intricate embroidery — threads of many colours twisting and interweaving: a cloth that all nations can wear. Most impressive.’ 

— William Radice, Rabindranath Tagore: Selected Poems (Penguin Modern Classics)

‘The work of translation is the work of comprehension, or rather the building up of a network of comprehensions. It enables people of different languages to share something that lies at the heart of human experience, which is the transformation of experience into language. Sudeep Sen has constructed a community of voices, a properly wide-ranging community, where true poems find proper echoes in the common cave of a new language — a mammoth work and a real achievement.’ 

—  George Szirtes, New & Collected Poems (Bloodaxe)

‘Prolific as a poet, … and a dynamic presence on the literary scene … [Sen has also done] vigourous work as translator.’ —  Arundhati Subramaniam on Poetry International Web

‘In this superlative book of translations, Sen uses his gifts as a poet, linguist, cosmopolitan traveller and observer to conjure, in Coleridge’s phrase, the ‘best words in their best order’ …. A fine collection of poetry which takes the best from classical and modern traditions and integrates them into a stunning whole.’ 

— Jenny Lewis on Molossus