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
- The Morning Post
- The Poet’s Fate
- Fish
- You Will Turn in Your Sleep
- Another Word for It
- Just a Little Hope Is Needed
- Mountain Child
- The Colour of Water
- After Midnight
- You Will Say Night
- The Cartographer
- It Happens Again
- Not What the Words…
- Did You Hear It Too?
- Only for a Day
- An Obsessive Tune
- In the Stillness of a Word
- To the Lost Children
- The Photograph
- Every Love
- Eclipse
- Deep in the Stillness
- As the Past Approaches
- A Standard Shirt
- Ants
- The Evening News and the Roof of the World
- The Blue-Eyed Blackbird
- Kanjika: Some Lamentations 3
- Child, Go Home
- Mourning Kanjikaa
- In Your Own Words
- The Washerman
- Kanjika: Some Lamentations 2