Poetry
City of Water, was published by Sahitya Akademi in February 2010. The book received the Muse India Young Writer Award for 2011. The jury comprised poet, translator and Nobel Prize nominee K. Satchidanandan, and noted Gujarati poet and writer Dr Dileep Jhaveri. The book is available at Sahitya Akademi stores around the country.
From the preface by Keki N. Daruwalla:
City of Water is remarkable for its supple language and tensile strength. Her images are sharp and there is integrity about the core of feeling that propels the poem. One cannot spot any weak moments either in terms of emotion or language....Anindita Sengupta never lets a poem run away with her. Like all good poets, she is original both in her way with words and her personal angle of vision."
Journals
Anthologies
Readings & Festivals
- Toto Funds the Art reading with Sridala Swami , Bangalore, 2008
- Toto Funds the Arts Awards ceremony, 2009
- Toto Funds the Art reading with Keki Daruwalla & Parvati Sharma, Bangalore, 2009
- Poetry Africa, Durban,South Africa, 2009
- Poetry with Prakriti, Chennai, 2009
- Reading at Sahitya Akademi Translators' Meet, Bangalore, 2009
- Reading at Sahitya Akademi Women's Meet, Patiala, 2009
- University of Kent, England, 2010
- Book Launch of City of Water, Bangalore, 2010
- Reading at Heggodu Cultural Festival, 2010
- Reading from City of Water at Goobe's Bookstore, Bangalore, 2010
- Hyderabad Literary Festival, Hyderabad, 2010
- Reading of new poems at Ranga Shankara, Bangalore, 2011
- Hyderabad Literary Festival, Hyderabad, 2011
most of them are poignant compositions, the endearing journey all through as they leave lasting impact on the readers mind…finally, the time worth spent!
Such powerful verse!
Speaking in Tongues is something else indeed.
Brilliant work!
What inspires you?:)
@Chandrashekar, Vidya: Thank you for reading. Glad you liked them.
thanks,
Your poems are lovely, haunting, melancholy sunshine,
drenched with longing, nostalgia, loss.
You have inspired, so here it is….
My beautiful brown leaf glows warm when spread before the sun,
and behind, the violet mountain below snowpeaks, before the
winter blue.
And so too, our brown age veins and creases
glow with so warm being
that when finally we alight in earth
the snows must melt.
Thank you, Victor.