About Jaydeep Sarangi
Jaydeep Sarangi is an Indian poet and poetry activist with ten poetry collections, the latest being Memories of Words ( 2023), and scholar on postcolonial studies and Indian Writings with forty-one books anchored in Kolkata/Jhargram. Widely anthologized and reviewed as a leading contemporary poet, Sarangi is on the editorial boards for journals of repute, devoted to poetry and poetry criticism. With Rob Harle, he has edited six anthologies of poems from Australia and India, which are a wealthy literary link between the nations. With Amelia Walker, he has guest-edited a special issue for TEXT, Australia. His recent book includes, Mapping the Mind, Minding The Map: Twenty Contemporary Indian English Poets, Sahitya Akademi, 2023 and A Life Uprooted: A Bengali Dalit Refugee Remembers, Sahitya Akademi, 2023. Mapping the Mind, Minding the Map ( 2023, Sahitya Akademi) is his latest book. Sarangi is currently the President of the Guild of Indian English Writers, Editors and Critics (GIEWEC) and Vice President, EC, Intercultural Poetry and Performance Library, Kolkata. Living with poets and poetry, Sarangi is principal of New Alipore College, Kolkata. He may be reached at: jaydeepsarangi1@gmail.com Website : https://jaydeepsarangi.in/Browse all poems and texts published on Jaydeep Sarangi
