Credit for photograph: Jaydeep
Sarangi: Photograph supplied by the author |
Jaydeep Sarangi is a widely anthologized poet with ten
collections, latest being, letters in
lower case (2022). A regular reviewer for poetry journals and newspapers,
Sarangi has delivered keynote addresses and read poems in different continents
and lectured on poetry and marginal studies in universities/colleges of repute.
His books, articles and poems are archived in all major libraries and online
restores in the world, including Harvard University, Oxford University,
Sorbonne University, Barkley Library, University of Western Australia,
University of New South Wales and University of Chicago. He is the President, Guild of Indian English Writers,
Editors and Critics (GIEWEC) and Vice President,
EC, Intercultural Poetry and Performance Library, Kolkata. He has been known as
‘the bard of Dulung’ for his poems on the rivulet Dulung and people who reside
on its banks. He edits Teesta, a
journal devoted poetry and poetry criticism. With Rob Harle he has edited six
anthologies of poems from Australia and India which are a great literary link
between the nations. With Amelia Walker, he has guest edited a special issue
for TEXT, Australia. Sarangi is
Principal and professor of English at New Alipore College, Kolkata and actively
spreading the wings of poetry in Kolkata and beyond. He may be reached at jaydeepsarangi1@gmail.com. His website is: https://jaydeepsarangi.in/