Anthropocene: Climate Change, Contagion, Consolation

Poetry, creative non-fiction and photographs weave feelings and ideas of isolation with larger global issues, politics, wars, and their consequent geopolitical/geological catastrophes.
Joint winner of the Rabindranath Tagore Literary Prize 2022.
“It all started with a newsclip I stumbled upon almost 15 years ago, where the President of the Pacific island of Kiribati expressed his concern about his people becoming 'climate refugees', due to rising sea levels.
Since then, it has been a gradual evolution of ideas and the recent pandemic accelerated my literary and artistic response to the climate conflicts.
I see Anthropocene as part of a larger sociocultural force, of which the pandemic is one of many crises.
However, the book is not a doomed vision of the post- human world but a plea for slowing down, positivity, and an urge to embrace 'hope, heed, heal – our song, in present tense'."

Translated into 25 languages, Sudeep Sen’s own works include Postmarked India: New & Selected Poems, Fractals: New & Selected Poems (Global Literary Festival Award for 'Literary Excellence & Best Book of the Year' 2017; Rabindranath Tagore Literature Prize shortlist 2020); Rain ('Best Books of the Year', The Statesman), Aria (A. K. Ramanujan Translation Award 2009, 'Best Books of the Year', Outlook magazine), and Kaifi Azmi: Poems | Nazms (Bloomsbury 2019). Influential anthologies Editor him include The HarperCollins Book of English Poetry, World English Poetry, and Modern English Poetry by Younger Indians, and his work has appeared in TLS, The Financial Times, The Guardian, The Observer, and The Telegraph, and Newsweek, and been broadcast on the BBC, PBS, CNN, IBN, NDTV, All India Radio and Doordarshan.Sen is the only Asian who has been honoured by being asked to deliver the Derek Walcott Lecture and to read at the Nobel Laureate Festival (in 2013). www.sudeepsen.org