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
- ‘I am not part of your language’, ‘Auk’ and ‘Evening’ in Pyrta Journal
- ‘Kites’ and ‘Breakage’ in Ouroboros Review
- ‘Entropy’ and ‘We left Bombay to start over’ at Mascara Literary Review
- ‘Dolls’, ‘The Mouth’ and ‘The Vivid Stream’ in Asia Writes
- ‘Arambol’ and ‘The Ghazal of the Forest’ at Green Light Dhaba
- ‘The City of Water’ at Unsplendid
- ‘The Wading Women of Marina Beach’ at Poetry Friends
- ‘The Vivid Stream’ and ‘Snails’ at Eclectica
- ‘Girls on the Hill’ at the Poetry Africa 2009 Website
- Four poems at Origami Condom
- ‘Speaking in Tongues’ and ‘Separation’ at Nth Position
- ‘Moonsong’, ‘A Violence Done’ and ‘The Screams’ at Pratilipi
- ‘Ways to bring in the new year’ at Pratilipi
- ‘Older’ at Quay Journal
- ‘The Patio’ and ‘Arambol’ at Cha: An Asian Journal
- ‘The Names, ‘The Migrant’s Wife’ and ‘The Nizam’s Wives’ at Kritya
- Two poems at Muse India
- ‘The Kitchen God’s Mistress’ at A cappella Zoo
- Three poems in Yellow Medicine Review
Anthologies
- Three poems in Writing Love (Rupa Publications, 2010)
- Three poems in Poetry with Prakriti (Prakriti Foundation, 2010)
- Three poems in Not A Muse (Haven Books, 2009)
- Five poems in Mosaic (Unisun, 2008)
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
