Long live the comma. The editor of a literary magazine once told me, 'I hate poets. They ring up and complain we left out one of their commas....'

And a vital one :)

🎨 Tonight at 1800: Nicola Heywood Thomas finds out the winner of this years, Wales Book of the Year Award... 🏆 Joined by Literature Wales @LleucuArianrhod Dr Tiffany Murray Ken Wilson-Max Sampurna Chattarji @GaryRaymond_ Eloise Williams + more... 🎧 Listen BBC Sounds bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00…

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This evening at 7pm! Listen in to how The Mad Mathematician's Poems journeyed directly from Hindi into Bangla. In the company of poet, publisher, translator and editor. Next best thing to the Mad Hatter's Party :)

Promises to be a rare glimpse into this poet's profound imagination.

Freedom. Freedom? youtu.be/xwXtYEtngpA

Let us celebrate translators today, too often rendered invisible by choice, process, the deceptive transparency of reading, and their own success! George Szirtes @shreedaisy tesslewis David Lunn Sampurna Chattarji asanyfuleknow Mani Rao Arunava Sinha @katherineschof8 Rana Safvi رعنا राना

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From one of the most important voices in Bengali literature since Jibanananda Das, Joy Goswami, comes a compelling collection of prose poetry. Skillfully translated by Sampurna Chattarji (Sampurna Chattarji), these poems reflect the writer's genius. Read more: harpercollins.co.in/after-death-co…

Andrea Jurjević 🏹 My list of outstanding contemporary poets (Non American) Les Wicks Sanjeev Sethi Oz Hardwick Sampurna Chattarji George Szirtes Richard Skinner Priya Sarukkai Chabris Damien B. Donnelly Emma_Lee1 Ranjit Hoskote @magdalenaball Abhay K.

#DilliDiary: Imagine if the owners of a Karachi Watch Co. or Lahore Stationers or Peshawar Cloth House were Muslim. Would their existence be so undisturbed, wonders Akhil Katyal. nationalheraldindia.com/lifestyle/dill…

For National Herald I wrote something about memory, joy, time and loss evoked by the Ganesh festival. Please read? Thanks Sampurna Chattarji National Herald nationalheraldindia.com/culture/that-g…

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Sampurna Chattarji Kedar Mishra #mumbaipoetryfestival Release of Elizabeth Grech's book of poems - Between Seas Discussion on Maltese Poetry Today: Sampurna Chattarji in conversation with Adrian Grima

As part of the Mumbai Poetry Festival, we celebrate 100 years of Nissim Ezekiel by jointly (Jerry Pinto, Sampurna Chattarji , and I) reading his delightful poem 'Entertainment'. Film by Hyphenbrands, for #Poetrywala. youtu.be/XvIO3hOz2SE?fe…

In which Sampurna Chattarji and I trace the publishing journey of star Tamil publisher kannan sundaram who has been publishing literary prize winners in a career spanning more than twenty five years. Read about him in #LivesinLiterature in Herald nationalheraldindia.com/art-and-cultur…

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