POETRY

We are delighted to be the UK distributor for Ciaran O'Driscoll's new collection 'The Old Women of Magione' produced by Images of Ireland in Umbria. The collection is the product of the unique collaboration with translatoer Rita Castigli and Ciaran's poems are printed both in English and Italian.

You can buy Ciaran's new collection here.

POETRY & PHOTOGRAPHY

Sudeep Sen was born in New Delhi in 1964, read literature at the University of Delhi and as an Inlaks Scholar received an MA from the Graduate School of Journalism at Columbia University in New York.

His poetry collections include Leaning against the Lamp-post (1983), The Lunar Visitations (1990), Kali in Ottava Rima (1992), Parallel (1993), New York Times (1993), South African Woodcut (Peepal Tree, 1994), Mount Vesuvius in Eight Frames (Peepal Tree, 1994), Dali’s Twisted Hands (Peepal Tree, 1995) and Postmarked India (1997).

His writing has been published in the Times Literary Supplement, Evening Standard, The Scotsman, Poetry Review, Boulevard, Harvard Review, Poetry, The Times of India, Indian Review of Books, The Independent and others, and has been broadcast on the BBC, SABC and AIR, among others. He has read his work worldwide and has received numerous grants, fellowships and awards, including International Poet in Residence at the Scottish Poetry Library, and in 1995, visiting scholar at Harvard University.

He works as a literary editor and has edited/co-edited Wasafiri: Contemporary Writing from India, South Asia & the Diaspora, Lines Review: Twelve Young Indian Poets and has two anthologies of Indian writing forthcoming. He has directed several short films.

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POETRY

In this beautiful, inspiring treasure of a book, Sudeep Sen reflects on rain - its passion and politics, its beauty and fury, its ability to "douse and arouse". He ultimately explores the various moods that water and fluids inherently unravel. The evocative art by an impressive array of leading comtemporary Indian artists that accompany the writing are not meant to illustrate the text, but simply to act as an aesthetic counterpoint, leimotiv, and antithesis - thus creating a fine tension and balance between words and images. Sudeep Sen's fiction which is at the same time balletic and precise, poetic and minimalist, stylized and wise, combines the virtual and visual - coalescing to convey the intensely special magic of moonsoon rains as felt in the Indian subcontinent.

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