Geography of Loss: Selected Poems
/Geography of Loss: Selected Poems (Banglalive.com, 2025), launched at the Kolkata Book Fair was translated into Bengali by over a dozen of the most established Bengali poets including Goutam Datta, West Bengal Poetry Academy Chair Subodh Sarkar and Minster of Education of West Bengal and theatre personality Sri Bratya Basu.
Translating poetry is the highest form of translation. While translating Nathalie’s poem “Bethlehem,” I remembered how my dad and mom ran away from Pabna, in East Pakistan and took shelter in a refugee camp in Krishnagar, India. For me, Bethlehem became Pabna or the other way around.
—Subodh Sarkar
