Publications
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.
Books | Chapbooks by Sudeep Sen
Poetry
2022 The Whispering Anklets by Sudeep Sen (with Aditi Mangaldas & Dinesh Khanna) (forthcoming)
2021 Anthropocene: Climate Change, Contagion, Consolation (Pippa Rann UK)
2021 Mera Sharir Meri Atma Ka Sautela Beta | My Body is the Stepson of my Soul: Selected Poems 1980-2020 introduction & translation into Hindi by Anamika (Vani Prakashan) forthcoming
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) forthcoming
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)
Prose
2022 Small Tales from my Kitchen Table (with Dinesh Khanna) (forthcoming)
2022 Selected Criticism & Reviews Vol 3 (Classix) (forthcoming)
2022 Selected Essays & Non-Fiction Vol 2 (Classix) (forthcoming)
2021 Selected Interviews & Coversations Vol 1(Classix)
2018 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)
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
Editor/Co-editor
2022 Contemporary English Poetry by Indians (Pippa Rann UK))
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)
Poetry in translation as books/chapbooks/broadsheets
2021 Mera Sharir Meri Atma Ka Sautela Beta | My Body is the Stepson of my Soul | Selected Poems 1980-2020 (Hindi) | trans Anamika (Vani Prakashan)
2021 Godhuli Vera: 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]
2002 Remembering Hiroshima Tonight [German / trans. Andrea Vialli]
2000 Ekti Khali Chithi [Bengali / trans. Aminur Rahman]
200? Ilhan Berk and other poems [Turkish / trans. Nese Yasin]
200? Remembering Hiroshima Tonight [Greek / trans. Kariofilis Mitsakis]
200? BodyText [Hebrew / trans. Dan Daor]
200? Lines of Desire [Hebrew / trans. Amir Or]
200? Lines of Desire [Romanian / trans. Curtea d Arges Poetry Festival committee]
200? Lines of Desire & Other Poems [Korean / trans. Kim Ku Sul & Park Hae Won]
200? Prayer Flag [Hungarian / trans. Domokos Johanna]
Important anthologies & publications featuring poetry translations
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];
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)
Important anthologies & publications featuring poetry /prose
2022 A Pocketful of Wry: Indian Poets Also Laugh (Penguin), eds. Arundhati Subramaniam & Jerry Pinto [forthcoming]
2022 Touched: An Anthology of Voices Writing on Creativity and Madness, eds. Jhilmil Breckenridge & Sukrita Paul Kumar [forthcoming]
2021 Singing in Bad Times: A Global Anthology of Poetry Under Lockdown (Penguin Random House), eds. K Satchidanandan & Nishi Chawla
2021 The Yearbook of Indian Poetry in English (Hawakal), eds Vinita Agrawal & Sukrita Paul Kumar
2021 Open Your Eyes: Climate Change Anthology ed. Vinita Agrawal
2021 Corona Crisis: Writings from the Debris (Heritage), ed. Vikram Chopra
2021 Covid 19 World Anthology of Poetry (Kistrech, Kenya) ed. Christopher Okemwa
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 Hibiscus: Poems that Heal and Empower (Hawakaal), Eds. Sengupta, Pickering & Mazumdar
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
ng 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