Bibhu Padhi

"He started writing seriously around 1975 and began having poems published in all the major Indian literary journals, Debonair, The Illustrated Weekly, Imprint, Indian Literature and Quest. Outside India, his poems have been published in, amongst others, Encounter, Orbis, Outposts, New Letters, Southwest Review and The Toronto South Asian Review. A selection appeared in New Voices: Eight Contemporary Poets (Anvil Press, 1990). He has edited a number of poetry anthologies and is a Counsellor in Creative Writing with the Indira Gandhi National Open University, Delhi. His critical writing, on D.H. Lawrence and Indian Philosophy and Religion: A Reader’s Guide (co-written with his wife), has been published in the USA.

His own first collection, Going to the Temple (1988) was published to considerable acclaim from, among others, James Kirkup, X.J. Kennedy, Tess Gallagher, James Merrill, William Stafford and Richard Wilbur. Lines from a Legend, which brings alive the world of Cuttack, was published by Peepal Tree in 1993." His work will be featured in the anthology 'Dharma in English' edited by Anand Kumar and published in 2027 by Penguin Random House India.