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Selected Poems

Author: Susmita Bhattacharya Pages: 148 Year of Publication: First published 1999, Revised and enlarged second edition 2010, Revised and enlarged third edition 2017 Price: Rs 300 ISBN: 978-93-5045-166-3 (9789350451663) About the Author Susmita Bhattacharya was born in Calcutta in 1947. She received a Ph.D. in Philosophy from Poona University in 1975. Dr. Bhattacharya has written several poetry collections. Her Bengali volumes include Karir Pahar Harer Pahar and Purushottamer Sange Pancham Sakshatkar. Her English volumes, in translation, comprise Lost Atlantis and Other Poems (Writers Workshop, India, 1995) and Dark (Sanbun, Delhi, 2004). Apart from […]

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The Silent Sonata

Author: Subir Chakraborty Pages: 76 Year of Publication: 2018 Price: Rs 200 ISBN: 978-93-5045-173-1 (9789350451731) About the Author This is Subir Chakraborty’s third anthology, the earlier two, The Unspoken Word and Symphony for the Soul, published by Writers Workshop, India, as well. He resides in Kolkata and leads a busy professional life as a senior executive in the corporate world, while continuing to write whenever he gets the time, mostly in long-distance transcontinental flights and at airport lounges across the world. In his own words, he writes because every now […]

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Cud on a Plate

Author: Bivin A. Peter (Athi) Pages: 88 Year of Publication: 2018 Price: Rs 200 ISBN: 978-93-5045-172-4 (9789350451724) About the Author Bivin A. Peter prefers to use the pen name Athi, which was given to him by his late friend, Abhayan. He describes this collection as “partly digested thoughts pressed upon a paper which are going to be chewed on further from this book by all those who read it, hence the title Cud on a Plate.” Teaser Corporate Indian-American What’s Indian about this man? […]

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I Know the Truth of a Broken Mirror

Author: Anindita Bose Pages: 64 Year of Publication: 2018 Price: Rs 200 ISBN: 978-93-5045-171-7 (9789350451717) About the Author Born and brought up in Kolkata, Anindita Bose’s work draws inspiration from her city. Her poems and short stories have been published in various national and international, online and offline magazines and anthologies. Her first book, The Virtual Reality (2016), was a collaborative endeavour, co-written with seven other poets from all over India. When not writing she is closely involved in the activities of a poetry group […]

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Half Aroma Half Face

Author: Debashish Banerji Pages: 92 Year of Publication: 2017 Price: Rs 300 / $20 ISBN: 978-93-5045-161-8 (9789350451618) About the Author Debashish Banerji went to school in Bombay (now Mumbai) and and then spent a few years at the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, West Bengal, before deciding to abandon his studies in Chemical Engineering and complete a BA in English Literature from Elphinstone College, Bombay. He started writing poetry in English from this period. He also served for a few years as a […]

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The Emerald Shores

Author: Asha Viswas Pages: 56 Year of Publication: 2017 Price: Rs 150 ISBN: 978-93-5045-167-0 (9789350451670) About the Author Asha Viswas is a former Professor of English, Benaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India. She has also taught at Aligarh and at the University of Calabar, Nigeria. She has published three collections of poems, two of which received awards: Melting Memories (1996, Delhi) was a recipient of the Michael Madhusudan Academy Award in 1997, and Mortgaged Moorings (published by Writers Workshop, India, 2001), a recipient of the […]

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House of Song

Author: Deeptesh Sen Pages: 80 Year of Publication: 2017 Price: Rs 200 ISBN: 978-93-5045-163-2 (9789350451632) About the Author Deeptesh Sen holds an M.Phil. in English from Jadavpur University, Kolkata. His poetry has been published in The Statesman (Kolkata), The Journal of the Poetry Society (India), Aainanagar, The Stare’s Nest, Crab Fat Literary Magazine, London Grip and Cafe Dissensus Everyday. His areas of research interest are modernist poetry and psychoanalysis. He has freelanced for media and publishing houses like Sportskeeda, Oxford University Press and Harper Collins. He […]

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The Making of a Poet

Author: Arnab Chakraborty Pages: 72 Year of Publication: 2017 Price: Rs 150 ISBN: 978-93-5045-164-9 (9789350451649) About the Author Arnab Chakraborty has lived a rather varied life in his twenty-seven years in the dystopic sector of Behala in the lovely city of Calcutta. His love for poetry compelled him to leave a career in civil engineering, bringing him to study literature instead, after a year of working as a correspondent at IBNS. His writing is informed by his many experiences in academics, journalism and beyond. […]

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The Wanderlust Conspiracy: Verse, Prose & Prayers from Cities Chained to the Heart

Author: Siddharth Dasgupta Pages: 156 Year of Publication: 2017 Price: Rs 300 ISBN: 978-93-5045-165-6 (9789350451656) About the Author Siddharth Dasgupta began devouring books at an early age. From within a mountain of spy classics and eastern European fairytales, it was The Little Prince that held his imaginations the most. He somehow intuited that a life of wonder and travel would end up becoming focal narratives in his life. Wanderlust and its accompanying passions are central to Siddharth’s journeys as a writer; they imbue a […]

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Pen at the Pollen

Author: Diganta Ray Pages: 76 Year of Publication: 2017 Price: Rs 150 ISBN: 978-93-5045-160-1 (9789350451601) About the Author Diganta Ray is an MA student in the Department of English at Jadavpur University, Kolkata. He has published two earlier collections of poems, titled Stolen Sights and Ant-Eggs in Honey-Hive Shade, both published by Salesian College Publication in 2014 and 2015 respectively. Born and brought up in Siliguri, West Bengal, he aspires to be a poet by profession. Teaser Glass That Measures Grief A glass breaks; And for […]

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