Words, Horizons, Journeys, Epiphanies... A reservoir of the past, a celebration of the everyday, a harbinger of things to come... Perhaps most pointedly, the pursuit of a little thing called Bliss. From the pen and persistently frayed suitcase of Poet/ Novelist Siddharth Dasgupta.
Five Poems for Spittoon
Five new poems for the wonderful global arts collective Spittoon. Spittoon does some excellent things, including poetry soirees across select global cities
Three Photographs
A poem about that time Che Guevara came down to Calcutta. Out now in the excellent Mekong Review
'Of Characters, And Spine'
Short weekend piece, out in The Sunday Standard/ New Indian Express
Lost Coasts, In Threes
Three new poems, in the Winter Edition of the excellent Joao-Roque Literary Journal. Out now.
Where Tea Stirs Remembrance
Parts memoir, parts archival anchoring, parts love letter. Out now in the Travel Special of the triumphant Arts & Culture magazine Kyoto Journal.
A Sea of Yesterdays & Tomorrows
A feature article for British magazine oh, written for the ‘Change’ special within the High Summer issue. The story is wedded to the geography that is half of Siddharth—the Andaman Islands.
Talk-time with Spittoon
Siddharth talks about the erotic nature of cities and the “untouched sweetness” of foreign words with global arts collective Spittoon
The Constant Conservationist
A profile of Champaca and its owner Radhika Timbadia for the excellent Arts & Culture Journal Mekong Review
The Shelf Life of Lovers
A literary confession, among other things. Out in The Sunday Standard, the weekend edition of the New Indian Express. Sublime Graphic Art—Shagun Puri/www.instagram.com/shagunpuri/
Of Faith, Of Forgetting
A trio of relatively older poems, within the spare, striking pages of The Bosphorus Review
'Poetic Justice'
A short reflection in relation to the magnificent Louise Glück, out in the Sunday Standard/ New Indian Express
