Explore a review of diasporic poetry in Bhaswati Ghosh's Nostalgic for a Place Never Seen, a collection on memory, displacement & belonging

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Four poems from Bhaswati Ghosh's collection Nostalgic for a Place Never Seen.

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A lot of the poems in the collection relate to physical spaces — dwellings, markets, villages, cities, hills — straddling between continents, atmospheres, cultures and time periods. The…

Bhaswati Ghosh, Nostalgic for a Place Never Seen, Copper Coin Publishing, 2024. 102 pgs. Nostalgia is humanity’s Janus-faced companion—simultaneously looking back and forward, with someone or somet…

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5/5: Descriptors like “evocative, magical, and insightful” can never capture the fullness of Bhaswati Ghosh’s writing, although they do give a hint! These poems cover so much ground in her life’s jour...

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An excerpt from ‘Nostalgic for a Place Never Seen’, by Bhaswati Ghosh.

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NOSTALGIC FOR A PLACE NEVER SEEN Brides in some places catch