# Selected Poems

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**Author:** Susmita Bhattacharya [](https://writersworkshopindia.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/Selected-Poems.jpg)
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Pages:** 148 **Year of Publication:** First published 1999, Revised and enlarged
second edition 2010, Revised and enlarged third edition 2017 **Price:** Rs 300 **
ISBN: **978-93-5045-166-3 (9789350451663)

_**About the Author**_
 Susmita Bhattacharya was born in Calcutta in 1947. She received
a Ph.D. in Philosophy from Poona University in 1975. Dr. Bhattacharya has written
several poetry collections. Her Bengali volumes include _Karir Pahar Harer Pahar_
and _Purushottamer Sange Pancham Sakshatkar_. Her English volumes, in translation,
comprise _**Lost Atlantis and Other Poems **_(**Writers Workshop**, India, 1995)
and _Dark_ (Sanbun, Delhi, 2004). Apart from this present volume, she has a second
bilingual collection to her credit, _Selected Fifty Five Poems_ (2006). Her poems
in Bengali, translated into English, Hindi, Marathi, Assamese and Telugu have been
published in magazines and anthologies in India, Sweden and the United Kingdom. 
She has written three works of research: _**The Concept of Equality – A Philosophical
Enquiry**_ (**Writers Workshop**, India, 2002), _An Aesthetic Assessment of Bihu
Songs _(2004) and _How Different is the Damned Gender?_ (2009).

In addition to writing, Dr. Bhattacharya is actively involved in women’s rights 
projects and is associated with Maitree – a network that campaigns for the rights
of women. She is a member of the Institute of Social Work and teaches community 
children at its centre in Calcutta.

_**Teaser**_
 Dr. Bhattacharya writes about this book: “This is a bilingual book,
containing each poem in two versions: Bengali and English. In most of the cases,
the poems were first written in Bengali and then either translated or transcreated
in English by the poet or by various distinguished translators from various walks
of life, whose bio-data have been included. In some cases, however, the poems were
first written in English and then transcreated in Bengali by the poet.”

Apart from the author, the other translators are Rajlakshmee Debee, Shyamasree Lal,
Arati Ganguli, Marian Maddern, Debjani Chatterjee, Aditya Bhattacharjee, Sabyasachi
Bagchi, Atri Bhattacharya, Srinjay Chakravarti and Joe Winter.

_**Contents**_
 118 poems in Bengali and English