Bhaswati Ghosh @bhaswati.bsky.social · 07/04/2026Early bird discount for the first 10 participants who register. Come, join us for this workshop. Link to register: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... 010
Bhaswati Ghosh @bhaswati.bsky.social · 07/04/2026Registration link: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...docs.google.com 011
Bhaswati Ghosh @bhaswati.bsky.social · 14/02/2026Such a sweet (and delicious) reason to remember this poem. 💗 011
Bhaswati Ghosh @bhaswati.bsky.social · 12/11/2025Grateful to see my personal essay about loneliness in such wonderful company. I can hardly wait to read the other essays in this anthology, edited by the powerhouse duo of Priyanka Sarkar and Semeen Ali. The book is jointly published by Yoda Press and @simonandschuster.bsky.social Simon & Schuster. 030
Bhaswati Ghosh @bhaswati.bsky.social · 02/08/2025Your personal history, the one you grew up absorbing was only a part of a bigger, collective history, now experienced through memory, you realize. Reading this note from author-editor Sucharita Dutta-Asane about NOSTALGIC FOR A PLACE NEVER SEEN reinforces this for me. I'm deeply touched. 020
Bhaswati Ghosh @bhaswati.bsky.social · 29/06/2025"Bhaswati Ghosh’s Nostalgic for a Place Never Seen is a collection that explores how home is a terrain of the mind, a pulse of longing bridging the intimate and the global" writes Gargi Kalita in her review for East India Story. eastindiastory.com/bhaswati-gho...eastindiastory.comBhaswati Ghosh’s Nostalgic for a Place Never Seen: A Review - East India StoryExplore a review of diasporic poetry in Bhaswati Ghosh's Nostalgic for a Place Never Seen, a collection on memory, displacement & belonging 000
Bhaswati Ghosh @bhaswati.bsky.social · 16/06/2025bhaswatighosh.com/2014/05/16/a...bhaswatighosh.comAranyalipi — Notes from refugee quarters, by Amiya Sen[This is an extract from “Aranyalipi,” Amiya Sen’s nonfiction book-length account of refugees from East Pakistan who had been rehabilitated in Dandakaranya, a region that includes parts… 000
Bhaswati Ghosh @bhaswati.bsky.social · 07/06/2025A most magical evening spent reading, celebrating poetry from NOSTALGIC FOR A PLACE NEVER SEEN (Copper Coin Publishing) at Writer’s Block in Champa Gali, Delhi. Thanks to Midland Bookshop for helping my books find new readers and to Ashley Tellis for organizing the evening impeccably. 000
Bhaswati Ghosh @bhaswati.bsky.social · 01/06/2025A wonderful afternoon was had last Sunday, as I read poems about migration and displacement from my debut poetry collection. The event was organized by Neighbourhood Diaries, an oral history initiative based in the very neighbourhood I grew up in Delhi. 000
Bhaswati Ghosh @bhaswati.bsky.social · 24/05/2025I'll be reading poems about migration and displacement from my debut poetry collection, NOSTALGIC FOR A PLACE NEVER SEEN. Would love to see you if you're able to make it. 000
Bhaswati Ghosh @bhaswati.bsky.social · 20/04/2025Delighted to inaugurate Saaranga English's YouTube channel with my reading of 'Obvious Mixture', a poem from my collection, NOSTALGIC FOR A PLACE NEVER SEEN. Do watch, share and subscribe? www.youtube.com/watch?v=UiSk...youtube.comBhaswati Ghosh: Nostalgic for a Place Never SeenYouTube video by Saaranga Channel 000
Bhaswati Ghosh @bhaswati.bsky.social · 11/04/2025Thank you so much! It's rewarding to see your work going to readers of another language. I'm grateful. 💗 010
Bhaswati Ghosh @bhaswati.bsky.social · 10/04/2025NOSTALGIC FOR A PLACE NEVER SEEN comes to Malayalam readers this summer. I couldn't be more grateful to P S Manoj Kumar, an accomplished poet and translator, and Fabian Books for this. 121
Bhaswati Ghosh @bhaswati.bsky.social · 21/03/2025Four poems from NOSTALGIC FOR A PLACE NEVER SEEN, my debut poetry collection, have found a home in The Bangalore Review. bangalorereview.com/2025/03/four...bangalorereview.comFour poems by Bhaswati Ghosh - The Bangalore ReviewFour poems from Bhaswati Ghosh's collection Nostalgic for a Place Never Seen. 011
Reposted by Bhaswati GhoshTammy Lai-Ming Ho @myetcetera.bsky.social · 06/03/2025🪡 𝗔𝗹𝗹 𝗮𝗯𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝗪𝗼𝗺𝗲𝗻'𝘀 𝗙𝗶𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻. We'd love to feature reviews of these titles in @asiancha.bsky.social. If you're interested in reading & reviewing any of these books, please email t@asiancha.com to discuss further. We also welcome suggestions for other titles that would complement these selections. 135
Bhaswati Ghosh @bhaswati.bsky.social · 10/03/2025MEALTIMES AT MOTHER'S HOUSE, a new poem of mine, in The Cultural Reverence. theculturalreverence.wordpress.com/2025/03/08/m...theculturalreverence.wordpress.comMealtime At Mother’s House — A Poem by Bhaswati Ghosh, CanadaVol. VII ; No.1 ; March 2025 Edition Mealtime At Mother’s HouseIt starts with bottle gourd peels julienned pin-thin,fried with nigella seeds. For even the discardedto find a place of value on… 000
Reposted by Bhaswati GhoshKristin Houlihan, Writer @kristinwrites.bsky.social · 05/03/2025Get my #audiobook AND support your local bookstore! Shop now at libro! #BookSky libro.fm/audiobooks/9...libro.fmLift the Mask Audiobook on Libro.fmJoin Kristin in her poetic and heartfelt musings on life, parenting, and faith, told through the lens of a chronically ill and disabled mom.The poetry and lyrical prose featured in this chapbook provi... 012
Bhaswati Ghosh @bhaswati.bsky.social · 04/03/2025Thank you so much! That poem and its first home will always remain special to me. 💗 020
Bhaswati Ghosh @bhaswati.bsky.social · 03/03/2025I was recently interviewed by The Artisanal Writer about my debut poetry collection and poetic journey.bhaswatighosh.comInterview in The Artisanal WriterSabyasachi Nag, Poetry Editor for The Artisanal Writer, a Canadian journal and literary arts collective exploring, inquiring and celebrating the craft and practice of writing, interviewed me. We di… 020
Bhaswati Ghosh @bhaswati.bsky.social · 01/03/2025It was my pleasure to be in an extensive conversation with the poetry editor of The Artisanal Writer (Canada) about NOSTALGIC FOR A PLACE NEVER SEEN, my debut poetry collection. artisanalwriter.com/2025/02/28/n...artisanalwriter.comNostalgic for a Place Never SeenA 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… 010
Reposted by Bhaswati GhoshThe New York Times @nytimes.com · 24/02/2025Roberta Flack, the magnetic singer and pianist who was one of the most popular artists of the 1970s, died on Monday at 88. Flack was known for her majestic anthems like “Killing Me Softly” and “The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face.” nyti.ms/4h1KzSh 662295384
Bhaswati Ghosh @bhaswati.bsky.social · 13/02/2025Thankful for this nuanced review of NOSTALGIC FOR A PLACE NEVER SEEN, my debut poetry collection, by Sayan Aich, in Cha: An Asian Journal @asiancha.bsky.social. chajournal.blog/2025/02/13/n...chajournal.blog[REVIEW] “This is How Places Heave: Memory and Longing in Bhaswati Ghosh’s 𝑁𝑜𝑠𝑡𝑎𝑙𝑔𝑖𝑐 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑎 𝑃𝑙𝑎𝑐𝑒 𝑁𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑟 𝑆𝑒𝑒𝑛” by Sayan AichBhaswati 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… 021
Bhaswati Ghosh @bhaswati.bsky.social · 13/02/2025Can't wait to listen. Thank you so much for sharing. 010
Bhaswati Ghosh @bhaswati.bsky.social · 12/02/2025armedwithamor.wordpress.com/2017/03/14/i...armedwithamor.wordpress.comIn search of home and homeland: Seeking PalestineSeeking Palestine: New Palestinian Writing on Exile and Home Penny Johnson, Raja Shehadeh, editors Olive Branch Press Your mother’s face once sustained you. Now you have to strain your memory to tr… 010
Bhaswati Ghosh @bhaswati.bsky.social · 11/02/2025Love how the tension builds up ever so inconspicuously, so brilliantly, in this piece. What a film, too ~https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6mo59IyQbroyoutube.comYann Tiersen, Goodbye LeninYouTube video by mrmusicologist 010
Bhaswati Ghosh @bhaswati.bsky.social · 01/02/2025New blog post ~ bhaswatighosh.com/2025/02/01/n...bhaswatighosh.comHow I became Nostalgic for a Place Never Seen (My debut poetry collection)I wrote a book of poems. It’s been a while since I’ve posted anything here, and it’s taken me a while to write this post. The sharp chill of winter. Work-life imbalance. Laziness. Procrastination. … 021
Reposted by Bhaswati GhoshGautam Bhatia @gautambhatia88.bsky.social · 21/01/2025Loved reading “On Earth or in Poems: the Many Lives of Al-Andalus”, by Eric Calderwood. A book about the various ways in which Al-Andalus has been represented in art and literature, it made Granada come alive. And the chapter on Palestinian al-Andalus was particularly moving. 0103
Reposted by Bhaswati GhoshJoyce Yarrow @jyarrow.bsky.social · 13/01/2025My review of Nostalgic for a Place Never Seen by @bhaswati.bsky.social www.goodreads.com/review/show/... #BookSky 📚💙 0113
Bhaswati Ghosh @bhaswati.bsky.social · 14/01/2025@jyarrow.bsky.social Joyce Yarrow's review of NOSTALGIC FOR A PLACE NEVER SEEN on Goodreads. She writes, "These poems cover so much ground in her life’s journey that one can only try to feed on each moment, with a promise to return again and again to the feast." www.goodreads.com/review/show/...goodreads.comJoyce Yarrow's review of Nostalgic for a Place Never Seen5/5: 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... 021
Bhaswati Ghosh @bhaswati.bsky.social · 14/01/2025Thanks a million for this thoughtful review, Joyce! 010
Bhaswati Ghosh @bhaswati.bsky.social · 30/12/2024Plato's Caves Online, a literary journal I've come to admire interviewed me. I spoke about the camaraderie of women in 'Victory Colony, 1950', my novel, migration and displacement in 'Nostalgic for a Place Never Seen', my recent debut poetry collection and more. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ssJ3...youtube.comBhaswati Ghosh InterviewYouTube video by Plato's Caves Online 041
Reposted by Bhaswati GhoshJoyce Yarrow @jyarrow.bsky.social · 21/12/2024More encouraging words from the BlackList have raised my hopes for a film adaptation of Sandstorm: “The book has an electric, stay-up-late-to-finish energy, which bodes well for its commercial prospects.” #Booksky 💙📚 071
Bhaswati Ghosh @bhaswati.bsky.social · 20/12/2024Thank you so much! Nothing would make me happier than if you read the book. 💗 020
Bhaswati Ghosh @bhaswati.bsky.social · 18/12/2024The first review of NOSTALGIC FOR A PLACE NEVER SEEN is out. "Ghosh’s poetic genius is apparent as she presents a narrative that starts silently, and then surges forth in a torrential plosive of light, colour and sound," writes Sonya Nair. I'm grateful. www.tribuneindia.com/news/book-re... 020
Bhaswati Ghosh @bhaswati.bsky.social · 17/12/2024The first review of NOSTALGIC FOR A PLACE NEVER SEEN is out in The Tribune. "Ghosh’s poetic genius is apparent as she presents a narrative that starts silently, almost reverentially, and then surges forth in a torrential plosive of light, colour and sound," writes Sonya Nair. I'm grateful.tribuneindia.comExile and homelessness in the worlds we inhabit - The TribuneHere are two very different yet very similar books of poems that lay bare the very nucleus of human existence in the age of modernity. 022
Reposted by Bhaswati GhoshShalimar Books @shalimarbooks.bsky.social · 17/12/2024📍We are open Monday-Saturday 11.30 to 6pm until 23rd December 2024. 😊🕒🎁📚 Pop in for our full selection of #SouthAsian books as well as some beautiful #handmade #art, #cards and #craft products from across the sub-continent. 📚🎁🙂 @shalimarbooks.bsky.social www.indianbooksuk.com 083
Bhaswati Ghosh @bhaswati.bsky.social · 15/12/2024Thank you, Joyce. Your support and encouragement truly mean a lot. 💗 010
Bhaswati Ghosh @bhaswati.bsky.social · 13/12/2024A selection of poems from 'Nostalgic for a Place Never Seen', my debut poetry collection. The poems are steeped in and influenced by my South Asian roots. Of family stories of migration and displacement, of weaving and libraries, of music and Hindi films, of desire and danger.scroll.in‘Their voices carry the liquid freshness of youth’: Bhaswati Ghosh’s poems about homes left behindAn excerpt from ‘Nostalgic for a Place Never Seen’, by Bhaswati Ghosh. 000
Bhaswati Ghosh @bhaswati.bsky.social · 08/12/2024Super grateful to receive such kind words from an author I highly admire. 031
Bhaswati Ghosh @bhaswati.bsky.social · 27/11/2024Huge thanks, Kristin! Here's to literary sisterhood. 💗 021