Biography
written by: Gopal Lahiri
@gopallahiri
Summer skies melt
In deepest blue
Silk sarees bleed
Colours of twilight
Stars tune music
Of burning night
Boats ferry unknown
Faces in a haste
Birds tweet in
Sign languages
The evening weaves
Leftover handshakes
A web of music from
The piano strings
Play core repertoire
Of solemnities.
Lazy idioms now
Write on your biography
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 journals and anthologies globally. His poems are translated to 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 in 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. First Prize Winner in Poetry Contest organised by 43rd World Congress of Poets in 2024.
