Lucy Rosenstein
Lucy Rosenstein did her MA in Indology at Sofia University (Bulgaria) and came to SOAS to further her knowledge of Hindi in 1991 by doing an MA and a PhD in Hindi.
While her early research focused on issues of comparative linguistics and textual criticism, her later work moved away from classical philology and embraced literary studies. She did her PhD on Braj Bhasha verse, followed by work on contemporary Hindi poetry. Her publications include numerous articles and two books: Swami Haridas and the Haridasi sampradaya: A study of early Braj Bhasha verse (Egbert Forsten 1997) and Nayi Kavita 'New Poetry' in Hindi: An Anthology (Permanent Black 2003).
In the last two decades, the main focus of her work has been child and adolescent mental health, but she has continued to nurture and be nurtured by her deep connection with poetry.
Poems translated by Lucy Rosenstein
- You Will Say Night
- Mountain Child
- Only for a Day
- It Happens Again
- Every Love
- In the Stillness of a Word
- Ants
- Deep in the Stillness
- Kanjika: Some Lamentations 3
- Kanjika: Some Lamentations 2
- Child, Go Home
- Mourning Kanjikaa
- Fish
- You Will Turn in Your Sleep
- Just a Little Hope Is Needed
- The Cartographer
- The Colour of Water
- After Midnight
- An Obsessive Tune
- Not What the Words…
- Did You Hear It Too?
- Eclipse
- To the Lost Children
- The Photograph
- As the Past Approaches
- A Standard Shirt
- The Evening News and the Roof of the World
- The Blue-Eyed Blackbird
- In Your Own Words
- The Washerman
- The Morning Post
- The Poet’s Fate
- Another Word for It