The Journal of IPPL
It gives us great pleasure in presenting a new issue of Poetry: At the Heart of the Nation, the Journal of the Intercultural Poetry and Performance Library (IPPL). As things seem to be looking up a little after the gruelling pandemic times, times when poetry has kept us connected, we are happy to see that IPPL poets have been meaningfully engaging with various forms of poetry. Using poetry as activism, to speak about issues that matter to us as we go along life’s difficult paths, poets have been attesting to the fact that poetry is about life.
POEMS
| Serial | Author | Content | URL |
|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | Amit Shankar Saha | The Power of a Kiss Rituraj Vasant | Read |
| 02 | Amita Roy | Kalikata to Kolkata | Read |
| 03 | Amrita Bhattacharyya | For the Lighthouse | Read |
| 04 | Aneek Chatterjee | Nowhere is My Next Destination Whispers on the River Bank | Read |
| 05 | Anindita Bose | Dream Children A Moment | Read |
| 06 | Chaitali Sengupta | The Path Seeks You Reflection | Read |
| 07 | Chandrani Mukherjee | The Temple and the Goddess | Read |
| 08 | Elma Lalnunsiami Darnei | Gemstones | Read |
| 09 | Farah Imam | Ferris Wheel Ride | Read |
| 10 | Gopal Lahiri | Unreal | Read |
| 11 | Jagari Mukherjee | Grief in Silver Winter Brush and Wind | Read |
| 12 | Jaydeep Sarangi | Her Cycles of Boons, Curses and Vows Magic in Deep Breathing | Read |
| 13 | Kaberi Chattopadhyay | Until I became the I | Read |
| 14 | Lopamudra Banerjee | At Home: Lines written in self-isolation | Read |
| 15 | Madhu Sriwastav | Tug of War | Read |
| 16 | Mandakini Bhattacherya | A Man A Sharecropper | Read |
| 17 | Mahua Sen | Grandfather’s Chair | Read |
| 18 | Monica Louis | Proximity | Read |
| 19 | Monobina Nath | On My Dinner Plate | Read |
| 20 | Nabanita Sengupta | The Chimney | Read |
| 21 | Natasha Kesh | A sense of ‘Ah! | Read |
| 22 | Navamalati Neog Chakraborty | The Opium Dream Streaming In | Read |
| 23 | Paramita Mukherjee Mallick | Capturing the Moments | Read |
| 24 | Pranab Ghosh | Departure | Read |
| 25 | Priyanka Adhikary | Childish Rant | Read |
| 26 | Rajorshi Patranabis | Incandescence Denial | Read |
| 27 | Rohit Dey | The Keepers of Winter | Read |
| 28 | Rudrajit Paul | The Colours of Rain The Sunset Kaleidoscope | Read |
| 29 | Sarban Bhattacharya | The Bonfire on the Day of Saint Valentine Anxiety and Escitalopram | Read |
| 30 | Saheli Mitra | I Burn | Read |
| 31 | Sangeeta Banerjee | Black Bird | Read |
| 32 | Sangeeta Dey Roy | The Downpower | Read |
| 33 | Shruti Lahiri | Then Why? | Read |
| 34 | Soumyanetra | Nothing Would Matter… | Read |
| 35 | Sridipa Dandapat | Fragments of Forgotten Memory | Read |
| 36 | Srinka Bose | Dimensions | Read |
| 37 | Susmita Banerjee | Abhisarika Adbhut Ek Adherer Tole Purche E Mon | Read |
| 38 | Sutanuka Ghosh Roy | Beyond Bable | Read |
BOOK REVIEWS
| Serial | Author | Content | URL |
|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | Dhee Sankar | Memories and the City: A Review of Nikita Parik’s My City is a Murder of Crows | Read |
| 02 | Namrota Purakayastha | Book Review: A Printed Mixtape by Aritra Basu | Read |
| 03 | Nishi Pulugurtha | Review: Until Birds Sing by Amita Ray | Read |
ESSAYS
| Serial | Author | Content | URL |
|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | Farah Imam | Reading Sutapa Chaudhuri’s ‘Me’ | Read |
| 02 | Monica Louis | Petrarchism for the Female Poet : Introducing Veronica Gambara, Vittoria Colonna and Gaspara Stampa | Read |
| 03 | Smitha Sehgal | On Seamus Heaney’s ‘Two Lorries’ | Read |
| 04 | Tathagata Banerjee | The Complicated Relationship of Tagore and Bengali Modernist Movement | Read |