Himalayas
Contemporary Indian and Chinese Poetry
2nd Edition
Will be published approx. on 16. January 2026
Book
Paperback/Softback
196 pages
978-1-84861-962-3 (ISBN)
Description
"Six poets each from India and China and six poems from each poet, all poems jointly translated: new voices, familiar faces in a new guise, a gallimaufry of the right words in the right order. For teachers and researchers of translation there are PhDs by the dozen here, on the how, the why, and the what of it all. For poetry lovers there is more than the usual ration of delight and surprise, of the catch in the throat, the gasp of recognition, the laugh or the sob that tells you this is the real thing you're reading. This is the new world, the sound of globalisation, waiting for you. When two leading international poets like Sudeep Sen and Yang Lian join their vision and skill to produce an anthology like Himalayas, you get a cracker of a book! " -BRIAN HOLTON
Featuring
from India: Ranjit Hoskote, Jennifer Robertson, Sudeep Sen, Ravi Shankar, Arundhathi Subramaniam, C P Surendran.
from China: Zang Di ??, Yang Lian ??, Yan Rong ??, Dai Weina ???, Yang Xiaobin ???, Wang Ziliang ???.
Featuring
from India: Ranjit Hoskote, Jennifer Robertson, Sudeep Sen, Ravi Shankar, Arundhathi Subramaniam, C P Surendran.
from China: Zang Di ??, Yang Lian ??, Yan Rong ??, Dai Weina ???, Yang Xiaobin ???, Wang Ziliang ???.
More details
Edition
2nd New edition
Language
English
Other
Place of publication
Exeter
United Kingdom
Edition type
New edition
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 11 mm
Weight
293 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-84861-962-3 (9781848619623)
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Persons
Sudeep Sen's [b.1964] prize-winning books include: Postmarked India: New & Selected Poems (HarperCollins), Rain, Aria (A. K. Ramanujan Translation Award), Fractals: New & Selected Poems | Translations 1980-2015 (London Magazine Editions), EroText (Vintage: Penguin Random House), Kaifi Azmi: Poems | Nazms (Bloomsbury) and Anthropocene: Climate Change, Contagion, Consolation (Pippa Rann). He has edited influential anthologies, including: The HarperCollins Book of English Poetry (editor), World English Poetry, Modern English Poetry by Younger Indians (Sahitya Akademi), and Converse: Contemporary English Poetry by Indians (Pippa Rann). The Government of India awarded him the senior fellowship for "outstanding persons in the field of culture/literature."
Yang Lian [b.1955] was born in Switzerland, grew up in China, and now lives in London. He has published 15 volumes of poetry, 2 volumes of prose, and many essays. His work has been translated into more 30 languages, and his representative works include YI, Where the Sea Stands Still; Concentric Circles; Riding Pisces: Poems from Five Collections; Lee Valley Poems, Narrative Poem, Anniversary Snow, A Tower Built Downwards, and others. Among other awards, He was elected a board member of PEN International in 2008 and 2011. In 2013, he was invited to become a member of The Norwegian Academy for Literature and Freedom of Expression. He lives in Berlin and London.
Yang Lian [b.1955] was born in Switzerland, grew up in China, and now lives in London. He has published 15 volumes of poetry, 2 volumes of prose, and many essays. His work has been translated into more 30 languages, and his representative works include YI, Where the Sea Stands Still; Concentric Circles; Riding Pisces: Poems from Five Collections; Lee Valley Poems, Narrative Poem, Anniversary Snow, A Tower Built Downwards, and others. Among other awards, He was elected a board member of PEN International in 2008 and 2011. In 2013, he was invited to become a member of The Norwegian Academy for Literature and Freedom of Expression. He lives in Berlin and London.