Sreemanti
Sengupta
Writes poetry and short prose. Published off and online on various journals and platforms. Written a book of poetry called 'Losing Friends'. Occasional Artist/Collagist. Edits The Odd Magazine and Odd Books. She writes a blog here
Earns her way to dreams writing ads.
Honourable mention in Phillips's "The Prompt" - 100 word challenge, 2024
Nominated for the Xulhan Mannan Prize rench Association of LGBTQI+ Journalists (AJL)'s annual awards, 2023
Longlisted for erbacce press prize 2021
Sreemanti Sengupta
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Releases: Print
'Losing Friends' is a debut collection of poetry by Sreemanti Sengupta that speaks about love, loss and ennui. It was released by Alien Buddha Press 2.o, San Francisco and is available on Amazon UK. See what readers think in the REVIEWS section below. Litsen to a reading from the book in the video below.
The video was uploaded by fellow poet Dorty from New York City in his blog. Read his complete post here.
Latest Releases: Electronic
Honourable mention in Phillips's "The Prompt" - 100 word challenge, 2024
Nominated for the Xulhan Mannan Prize rench Association of LGBTQI+ Journalists (AJL)'s annual awards, 2023
Longlisted for erbacce press prize 2021
Something’s Gotta Give
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They lived miles away. The brown girl and the white guy. They liked to see each other. Only one of them wanted others to watch too.
Nominated for Best Small Fictions Awards 2021 by Blink Ink Print
I don’t open my mouth because it has the garbage of the world that the oceans have left behind, the kind that can choke blue whales and leave them on the shores like impossible spectacles.
Read: Three stories at Bull
From the 1970s’ gun-slinging, hip-flask alcoholics coming home to despairing mothers and anxious girlfriends to today’s portrayal of women speaking out against a single slap, there has been a sea change as far as the portrayal of women is concerned.
LOSING FRIeNDS by Sreemanti Sengupta, her first book of poetry (Alien Buddha, 2019), gives the reader sharp, incisive glimpses of a narrative voice at remove, viewing the objects and event around it with a clear, concise detachment. Not that these poems are cold, though. The observation and recording of these objects and events usually convey a kind of bewildered love or a bemused wonder that such things exist at all, that such things carry with them emotional weight. Sengupta uses the ordinary as a vehicle to take the reader to what might possibly be extraordinary...
Robert Masterson, USA
Reviews
Her friends occupy an environment with 3 dimensional pop-up books. Their peaks and valleys vibrate unexpectedly as she grabs the reader’s mind and emotional body to triple summersault in delicate form, or in others with more energetic force, vaulting the reader elsewhere. Her holding urban word written hand sometimes a rose, sometimes a bruised rose petal. From lyrical narratives of personal forth-righteous honesty, absent self pitty, to short star burst modern haiku poems, such moment(s) demonstrate deep insight and self awareness.
The language is clear, honed to the bone of clear observation and experience. Superb poems by a citizen of India that are at home anywhere in the global community of English speakers and readers.
Karl Kempton, Oceano, CA
Losing Friends, a title that suggests what her poems of love and pain are all about, stark and real and there like the little universe the poet comes across dying on the sidewalk. Life might seem sad and scary, but don’t you be because the poem affirms with craft and spirit that separation brings acceptance, departure an arrival: understanding and revision and even beauty with open arms are waiting for you there.
Don Yorty, New York City