Jayanta Mahapatra is a well-known Indian poet writing in English. Later he also wrote poems in Odia, his native language and has nine collection of books in Odia to his credit. This is the maiden collection of Odia poems translated into English. These poems deal with the poet’s life, loss, memory, loneliness and the world around him. Mahapatra has spent all his life in the old city of Cuttack, Odisha that runs in his vein and needless to say, the city- its rain, summer, winter and hustle-bustle life- has always been seeped into his poetry surreptitiously.

Gopa Ranjan Mishra, who hails from the same old city, has intimately watched the life and living of Mahapatra and has rendered these highly personal and evocative poems into English. We are sure the discerning readers would find this collection very fascinating and useful.