# Writers Workshop Poets Mentioned in the Prestigious JCL

- Link: https://writersworkshopindia.com/2024/03/29/writers-workshop-poets-mentioned-in-the-prestigious-jcl/
- Published: 2024-03-29T12:56:06+00:00
- Author: us\_basu

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Five of our books published in 2022 have been featured in the Journal of Commonwealth
Literature.

This is what the journal says:

“Several interesting debut collections appeared from the North-Eastern states. _The
Tortoise Prince _by Gumlat Ong Maio of the Singpho tribe of Arunachal Pradesh is
a retelling of fourteen folk tales of the tribe in verse form. The Singphos have
no written
 history and Maio’s recording of these oral folk tales in written form
will help document the culture and belief of the people. Assamese poet, Sawmitra
Roy’s debut collection, _In The Streets of Your City_, has poems written in several
forms including the Ghazal — “I got up from my bed on the other side this morning./
Dreams escaped like sparrows from my eyes this morning”. Poet from Shillong, Abhradeep
Bhattacharjee’s debut collection has the title _Songs for a Half-Escape.”_

“Ivy Imogene Hansdak is from the Santal tribe of Jharkhand. The mood is pensive 
in her second collection, _The Prism of __Life_. She is deeply saddened by the silence
of the middle class at the mass migration of workers during the lockdown period —“
This silence fails to bring succour to my soul,/ It fails to lead me into the land
of dreams.””

“Nishi Pulugurtha’s _Raindrops on the Periwinkle_, a haiku collection, draws attention
to nature — “A lost sole mynah/ perched alone on maze of pipes/ crisscrossing random”.”