Gopal Lahiri
Gopal Lahiri is a bilingual poet, critic, editor, writer and translator with 31 books published, including eight solo/jointly edited books. His poetry and prose are published across more than one hundred fifty journals and anthologies globally.
About Gopal Lahiri
Gopal Lahiri is a bilingual poet, critic, editor, writer and translator with 31 books published, including eight solo/jointly edited books. His poetry and prose are published across more than one hundred fifty journals and anthologies globally. His poems are translated in 18 languages and published in 16 countries. He has been nominated for Pushcart Prize for poetry in 2021. He has received Setu Excellence Award, Pittsburgh, US, in poetry in 2020. He has been conferred First Jayanta Mahapatra National Award on literature in 2024 for his significant contribution in Indian English Writing. His collection of poems Alleys are Filled with Future Alphabets. has received Pan Asian Ukiyoto awards. His Selected Poems will be published soon.
Books by Gopal Lahiri
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Night Show — poem unrhymed
Gopal Lahiri was born and grew up in Kolkata, India. He is a bilingual poet, writer, editor, critic and translator and published in Bengali and English language.
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Wingless Dreams — poem unrhymed
"...Exposing the fault lines, And the conversation with it,..."
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Pretence — poem unrhymed
"...The silvery moon and dusty night Run dry along the shining pavements..."
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Nameless — poem unrhymed
"...Open the old envelope On the depths of time..."
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Summer of Discontent — poem unrhymed
"...Feeling impassable cold hard reality..."
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Covid 19 — poem unrhymed
"...sinking deeper and deeper in the whir of death..."
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Love is a Verse — poem unrhymed
"...You come from a place where moon swifts to mirth..."
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Wordless — poem unrhymed
"...Cloudless evening holds promise..."
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Haiku — poem unrhymed
"...the pigeons flutter their wings..."
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Lockdown — poem unrhymed
"...handshakes are denied by sealed iron door..."
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Those Maybes — poem unrhymed
"...Each cry is now an artifact of eternity..."
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Refuge — poem unrhymed
"...Every musical note, even the abstract holds its silence..."
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River — poem unrhymed
"...Trees are already on their knees to greet the breeze...
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Iron Chest — poem unrhymed
"...I think night is the right time..."
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Long-Distance Calls — poem unrhymed
"...I hear people cry and hurt just like I do..."
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Silence of Clocks — poem unrhymed
"...in a summer the breeze that closes the windows..."
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The Image That I Am — poem unrhymed
"...I see moments that seem motionless..."
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Warmth — poem unrhymed
"...White clouds are forming and reforming above the river and the distant town..."
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Pristine Landscape — poem unrhymed
"...Morning rays give birth to freedom and hope..."
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Haiku — haiku
Mid-winter presents...
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Salvation — poem unrhymed
"...see things anew in a long river running..."
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Senryu — poem unrhymed
"...dense forest, now a clean-shaven look, bullish real estate..."
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Search — poem unrhymed
"...write seven alphabets under the eyelids..."
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Light of Connection — poem unrhymed
"...in a world where words are woven like tapestries...
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Rename — poem unrhymed
"...I often rechristen my days..."
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Azure Music — poem unrhymed
"...I will sing, not knowing which raga or lullabies..."
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Story Elements — poem unrhymed
"...Between wreckage and resilience salvation lies..."
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Tremor — poem unrhymed
"...I stare at the broken columns and pillars..."
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Soft Maple Street — poem unrhymed
"...The sky is featureless, the light spreads like a stain..."
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Solitary Window — poem unrhymed
"...blinds filter sun light descending on the jacaranda tree..."
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Liquid Gold — poem unrhymed
"...a marriage of rock and fluid..."
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Sky’s Script — poem unrhymed
"...only the moonlight understands..."
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Sketches — poem unrhymed
"...with these hands I smear colours -- mauve, scarlet, pink..."
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Senryu — poem unrhymed
"...a visual delight..."
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Haibun — poem unrhymed
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Trace — poem unrhymed
"...I want to write in dusty pages..."
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How hushed it is — poem unrhymed
"...I touch the darkness to feel the night..."
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Darkness — poem unrhymed
"...the sense of sinking in the shifting sands ..."
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Unreal — poem unrhymed
"...the leaves are filling a doorway..."
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Beyond — poem unrhymed
"...nobody knows what will happen next..."
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Senryu — poem unrhymed
"...cold in absence of your laughter..."
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Dyad — poem unrhymed
"...the moonless night is so complete in itself..."
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Triptych — poem unrhymed
"...Your shadow closes around my throat..."
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Ancient Script — poem unrhymed
"...how to go on until tomorrow?.."
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Light Inside — poem unrhymed
"...Each leaf is a soul in tears..."
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Picasso's Canvas — poem unrhymed
"...the tender, the kind, the caring..."
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Maithan Dam Lake — poem unrhymed
"...just open the door of memories ..."
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Blue Edge — poem unrhymed
"...all things are gone, yet present..."
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Home Script — poem unrhymed
"...walls where a rhythm beats nostalgia..."
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Echoes from Koel — poem
"... Koel river picks echoes of the Palamau forest..."
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Lost Shadow — poem
"...the expiring city of my frozen childhood..."
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Distrust — poem
"...I never understand the language of water..."
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Burden — poem
"...I just can't, can't lighten this burden..."
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Senryu — poem
"...I reach out to touch the emptiness..."
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Lucid Dreams — poem
"...Neither light nor darkness, just a stoic stillness..."
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Anaphora of This City — poem
"This city walks on barefoot..."
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Forgotten Childhood — poem
"...A piece of cloud and the color of dusk are riddles..."