Poetry at Sangam

SangamHouse

 










Pitambar Naik

Pitambar Naik is an advertising copywriter. When he’s not creating ideas for brands, he writes poetry. His work appears or is forthcoming in Ellipsis… Literature and Art, The Dodge, The McNeese Review, The Notre Dame Review, Packingtown Review, Ghost City Review, Rise Up Review, Glass: A Journal of Poetry, The Indian Quarterly and elsewhere. He is the author of the poetry collection, The Anatomy of Solitude and Fury Species (Translation) forthcoming. He grew up in Odisha and lives in Bangalore, India.

 

Translator’s Reflections

Hemanta Dalpati is a powerful young voice, who has created a special identity for himself in Odia literature. He thinks literature isn’t a medium of entertainment but a mirror of the society we live in. Being an adivasi himself from one of the most backward districts of India, Dalpati portrays the pain, plight and everyday struggle of the adivasis in Odisha. His poems reflect the lives of the adivasis under repression and corporate exploitation in the state.

 

Poems by Hemanta Dalpati translated by Pitambar Naik

The Murder of Drika Kadraka

Paiti

I Want to Chop the Moon into Tiny Pieces

Behold, The World Is Full Of Honey