Anthropocene Av Sudeep Sen

<p>Poetry, creative non-fiction and photographs weave feelings and ideas of isolation with larger global issues, politics, wars, and their consequent geopolitical/geological catastrophes.</p><p><strong>Joint winner of the Rabindranath Tagore Literary Prize 2022.</strong></p><p>¿It all started with a newsclip I stumbled upon almost 15 years ago, where the President of the Pacific island of Kiribati expressed his concern about his people becoming ''climate refugees'', due to rising sea levels.</p><p>Since then, it has been a gradual evolution of ideas and the recent pandemic accelerated my literary and artistic response to the climate conflicts.</p><p>I see Anthropocene as part of a larger sociocultural force, of which the pandemic is one of many crises.</p><p>However, the book is not a doomed vision of the post- human world but a plea for slowing down, positivity, and an urge to embrace ''hope, heed, heal ¿ our song, in present tense''."</p>