Kolkata: USA based writer, editor, and journalist launch her maiden collections of poems, ‘let the Night Sing’ through which she tells what is it to be a woman. There was a panel discussion, where there were eminent panelists, Dr. SanjuktaDasgupta, Professor (Eng Dept.-Calcutta University) and Poet with six book of poems and Dr. SantoshBakaya, Academician, Poet and Author of Ballad of Bapu and Flights from My Terrace, discussing on the Topic “Womanhood and its exploration in Contemporary Indian English Poetry”
Many believe that womanhood is not an easy journey; to deal with emotional break-down and fight against society for just being a woman is indeed adversity. To tell a story of her Journey, Lopamudra Banerjee has come all the way from west to share her experience through her maiden book of poems-‘Let the Night Sing’. The Contemporary Indian English Poetry, as the name suggests, is based on certain inevitable conditions that a woman confronts at some point in time or the other.
“Let The Night Sing” is a collection of 70 poems, most of them born as lunar musings in the wee hours of the night, the poet, sometimes as a young woman or sometimes as a restless sojourner, she celebrates the fragments and remains of the poet experience her womanhood evolving with time.
Lopa believes that poetry is one of a medium through which she is able to speak on the causes affecting everyone on a deeper level; she often confesses a mysterious longing within her which she confident about other women struggling with the same unanswered questions.
Lopamudra Banerjee is a Writer, Poet, Editor, and Translator, currently based in Dallas, USA, certified with a Masters’s degree with a thesis in creative non-fiction writing from the Department of English, University of Nebraska, Omaha. She is ex-student from the University of Calcutta accomplishing a Masters’s degree in English, and also a Post Graduate Certificate in Journalism.
She is the co-editor of the bestselling anthology on women, Defiant Dreams: Tales of Everyday Divas, published in collaboration with Readomaniaand Incredible Women of India.
Thwarted Escape: An Immigrant’s Wayward Journey is her debut non-fiction novel that recently received an Honourable Mention at the Los Angeles Book Festival 2017. The manuscript has also been a First Place Category Winner at the Journey Awards 2014 hosted by Chanticleer Reviews and Media LLC.
‘Let The Night Sing’, her debut poetry collection is published by the Global Fraternity of Poets. Her translation work ‘The Broken Home And Other Stories’ (a collection of two novellas, ‘The Broken Home’, ‘Laboratory’ and six short stories of Rabindranath Tagore translated in English), is to be published by Authorspress very soon.
