Gopal Lahiri is a Kolkata-based bilingual poet, critic, editor, writer and translator with 21 books published in English and Bengali. His poetry has also been published in various anthologies and eminent journals in India and abroad. His work has been published in 12 countries and his poems are translated in 10 languages. You can find him on www.gopallahiri.blogspot.com and on twitter: @gopallahiri
Published in India’s 75th year of Independence, Converse: Contemporary English Poetry by Indians (2022) presents unique and diverse voices from the diaspora, with poems that are a sustained discussion with history, oneself, the environment, myth, science, and relationships. By Dustin Pickering
Five poems by Gopal Lahiri: ‘somewhere the curling script of history hangs over / the old crossword book of migration’.
Four poems by Gopal Lahiri: ‘this calmness, this silence / the cruel and blasphemous are marking / an uneasy path; we can’t erase.’
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“Poetry is the diary I always carry with me.” Gopal Lahiri’s collection Selected Poems (2025) cultivates a privacy that invites readers to the poet’s second self in consciousness. By Dustin Pickering