Petrarchism for the Female Poet : Introducing Veronica Gambara, Vittoria Colonna and Gaspara Stampa

Monica Louis Discussing women poets using Petrarchism, draws back to how the female protagonist of Petrarch’s poems is heard if at all. Laura only speaks after her death. Whenever she speaks, her speech is praised for being articulate rather than having any rational quality. In sonnet 200 of the Rerum vulgariam fragmenta, Petrarch praises Laura’s…

Reading Sutapa Chaudhuri’s “Me”

Farah Imam ‘If any female feels she needs anything beyond herself to legitimate and validate her existence, she is already giving away her power to be self-defining, her agency’ Bell Hooks. Dr Sutapa Chaudhuri in her provocative poem titled ‘Me’ carves out an identity of herself. The title calls attention to the poet for her…

Book Review: Until Birds Sing by Amita Ray

Nishi Pulugurtha Penprints, Kolkata, 2022, Rs. 250/- Academic and translator, Amita Ray dons many hats. While translation is what is close to her heart, she is equally at ease when writing short stories and poems. Her debut collection of poems, Until Birds Sing, a collection of sixty-two poems is testimony to it. Actively associated with…

Memories and the City: A Review of Nikita Parik’s My City is a Murder of Crows

Dhee Sankar Some poetic voices flourish in prolixity and loftiness, while for some others, brevity is the soul of poetry. Nikita Parik’s latest collection of poems, My City is a Murder of Crows, published by Hawakal, is a remarkable exemplum of the latter kind of poetics. Effortlessly traversing through the visceral to the spiritual, the…

Sutanuka Ghosh Roy

Beyond Babel She helps in building houses she never had one, sleeps on the railway platform body bartered for the dream of knitting a haven. Each brick on her coiled braid designs a new fabric in her mind’s loom. Each grain of sand the shovel clears becomes an anchor in the star. Each lung stiffening…

Susmita Banerji

Dr. Susmita Bandyopadhyay Dr. Susmita Bandyopadhyay is an Associate Professor in Bengali. She is a well known author and contributed immensely to Bengali Literature through teaching and publications. Her latest book of Poems “Tumi Daak Diyechho Bolei “ is creating ripples in the Bengali academic circle.