‘It’s a cliché to herald the arrival of a new voice. And yet here is Sohini Basak with this book that is fully mature, expansive, formal and yet surprising, everything one wants from lyric.’
– Juliana Spahr
 
‘This book teems with the furious and thoughtful tenderness of a generation of promising younger poets for whom self-reflexivity and ecological consciousness, small and large, are part of the same shuttlings of thought.’
– Anthony Vahni Capildeo
 
‘Sohini Basak’s extraordinary felicity and tenderness make this book one of the most exciting in recent Indian poetry.’
– Anjum Hasan

Winner of the inaugural Beverly Manuscript Prize, Sohini Basak’s We Live in the Newness of Small Differences is an exquisite debut collection that breaks boundaries with form. There is a sense of endlessness in the interactions of poems with each other and with their sources – which range from Bangla children’s classics to contemporary writers and ecological events.

This is a collection that doesn’t stand still, despite its elegance and charm, somehow continually recreating its own time and space beyond the page.

Reviewed by Victoria Adukwei Bulley on Poetry London, Uttaran Das Gupta on The Business Standard, Sal Salam on Amberflora, and Tash Keary on The Kindling.

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