02 Dec Sen’s Sensibility

Poetry is – for reasons that are quite unfathomable – the Cinderella of the literary world. Perhaps novels, short stories and essays simply shout louder. But one of the most eloquent voices at the recent George Town Literary Festival was Sudeep Sen whose newly published Fractals (Gallerie) brings together over 300 new and select earlier poems from his internationally acclaimed oeuvre spanning 35 years, 1978 to 2013, as well as some of his translations. The title is well chosen: capturing the poet’s own interest in art, science and patterns scattered through nature. This is work of the highest order and a brilliant affirmation that ‘poetry is the mother tongue of the human race’.

“Sudeep Sen’s poems are a present which bring – like all true poetry – so much companionship”

– John Berger

“A rich, fluent, cosmopolitan voice”

– Peter Bradshaw

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