Collected Poems by Sujata Bhatt Carcanet Press Then within six months his

Then within six months his much-loved father died

Florence Nightlingale

his love of world literature suffuses his lines and spurs his ambition

forever fracturing a new world from the old…

Emblem revitalises this forgotten hybrid form in the present as a frame to contemplate the obscurities of motherhood

Collected Poems by Sujata Bhatt Carcanet Press Then within six months hisThis book gathers four decades of writing, published in collections from Brunizem in 1988 to Pure Lizard in 2008. It maps the poets trajectory, following her exile from her homeland, India, and her mother tongue, Gujarati, to the landscapes and languages of the USA and then Europe. Urgent, compassionate and inventive, Bhatts work forms a uniquely sustained project of reinvention and rediscovery. Carcanet Press