Uncut Poetry presents Red River Sessions
Red River Sessions is India's podcast dedicated to poets and their poetry, presented by Uncut Poetry and Red River, an independent poetry publishing house. Host Sunil Bhandari explores the lives and experiences of poets, seeking to understand the stories behind the verses that move us. Each episode aims to reveal the human touch beneath the poetry, offering listeners a deeper connection to the art form.
Episodes
Shobhana Kumar & K Srilata - Two Voices. One Echo.
This episode is a conversation about translation — but also about voice, memory, the body, and the extraordinary journey of carrying one poet’s interior world into another language. i, Salma is not simply a translated collection — it is the bringing together of poetry, lived experience, and linguistic transformation. And at the heart of this process are two translators whose own literary sensibili
Sucharita Dutta-Asane - Sculpting Stories, Growing Roots
Stories have their own quiet revolutions.Some are whispered in small rooms, some are sculpted in solitude — and a few are nurtured into existence by those who believe that words, even when silenced, find their way back to light.My guest in this episode is one such believer — writer, editor, and literary catalyst Sucharita Dutta-Asane.Her stories, from 'Cast Out' to 'These Tongues That Grow Roots',
Priya Sarukkai Chabria - Between the Story and the Silence
I spoke to Priya Sarukkai Chabria for more than an hour. Time literally flew. And though my cache of questions was largely over, when do we ever want a good conversation to end. So this is where we ended - we have decided that I will visit her in Pune, with the proviso that I will tell her my favorite drink from before. And we will pick up the thread of the conversation from exactly where we left
Gayatri Majumdar - Remembering by Not Holding On
How often would you meet a poet who stays in a town steeped in the calm of spirituality but whose shoreline is sprayed with the spume of a restless sea? Well, Gayatri stays in Pondicherry, an absolute favorite place of mine. And I have been wanting to speak to her for ever and more!And when we finally did get to it, the conversation just flowed. For an hour we spoke of cities, books, poets, Sri Au
Basudhara Roy - Writing from the Body
Basudhara and I finished our conversation at 10 pm. One hour forty-three minutes. And my heart was full. We'd started off thinking we should aim for a thirty to forty five minutes talk. I'm just glad it wasn't to be.There is something reassuring about Basudhara. Because she speaks with conviction, of being completely honest to the moment. Thoughts, images, opinions, all, take shape lik
Sophia Naz - The Importance of Transitions (Part 2)
This is the second part of the conversation with Sophia Naz.
Sophia Naz is a bilingual poet, artist, author, editor and translator. She has been nominated twice for the Pushcart Prize; in 2016 for creative nonfiction and in 2018 for poetry. Her work features in numerous literary journals and anthologies, including The Penguin Book of Modern Indian Poets, The Night Heron Barks, Singing in the Dark:
Sophia Naz - The Importance of Transitions (Part 1)
I first met Sophia at the Delhi Poetry Festival last year. We were both in the same session, reading our poetry, and the session got delayed. We had a good time furiously cribbing about the delay. Of course, we finally got to our poetry, and I was completely floored by what she read.
Her poetry was cerebral, fun, layered - it was like an intellectual puzzle that needed to be uncovered, layer by l
Sukrita Paul Kumar - The Meaning of All Things
Sukrita says - "Literary success lies in the joy I get while in the very process of writing and then the glee in actually being able to finish a poem. The rest of it is rather superficial and temporary."
Welcome to Red River Sessions, which is a collaboration between Red River, the premier independent house for poetry and Uncut Poetry, the much loved poetry podcast. I am your host Sunil Bhandari,
Shobhana Kumar - A Talk Full of Bucket Lists
To know Shobhana is to know the essence of grace and gratefulness which suffuses her work. I have time and again, on reading her poems, kept the book down and held back my emotions. She gets to the heart of the matter with quick acuity, but an understanding, which is gentle, kind. She holds the reader close to her heart, as she leads him through her hurting poetry.
Shobhana Kumar has two collectio
Bina Sarkar Ellias - The Renaissance Rebel
Bina stole my heart from the time I met her, a few years back, in a poetry extravaganza where I was the Master of Ceremonies and Bina headlined a stellar galaxy of poets. She was there with her husband, the renowned photographer Rafique Ellias, and I knew I was in the presence of two wonderful souls from the first hello. Her poetry had a power which her slender frame and gentle voice belied. And a
Siddharth Dasgupta - Within the Algorithms of Desire
"Ishq, the word reverberates
Sending ripples
of erotic Blue
Across the naked promise
Of what her body
chooses to preserve
And what her body
chooses to predict
Mizaaj, the mood
Reciprocates
It hovers on the edge
of cliffs drawn
from breath
Each lust left
desiring the
Intensity of you
If desire has a leitmotif
Then let in be the mark
upon her knee
And the exhaled prism
of a single word
Alfaaz
Its t
Nabina Das - Of Love, Blood & Dissent
Nabina Das is an iconoclast and one of the finest poets of our times.
She has just released an incredible collection of poems - Witness: the Red River Book of Poetry of Dissent, with poems from 250 of the finest poets of our times.
In this episode of Red River Sessions presented by Uncut Poetry, Nabina talks about the genesis of this magnum opus, the struggles of putting together something s
Robert Wood - From the Thirst of the Earth
Robert Wood's poetry is sonorous, uplifting and has embedded within it the smells, sounds, textures, bruises and memories of the ancient land he stays in. Robert lives in Boorloo on Noongar Country in the East Indian Ocean in Australia, but has roots in Kerala in India through his mother. His two books Redgate and A Guide to Field and Woods are a personal journey into the memory and reality of the
Soni Somarajan - On The Wings of Imagination
Soni Somarajan says he has lived two different lives in a single lifetime.
The first part is all memory and the second part is the world today. And he fears he might lose the first due to the enormity of the second. Because for the last 30 years, Soni has borne the brunt of a progressive neuromuscular disorder. Two thirds of the time, he has to make do with a permanent sidekick - a wheelchair. It'
Madhu Raghavendra - A Life Worthy of Every Breath
Madhu Raghavendra is nothing short of a magician. A product of many geographies, he is a polyglot, a poet, an activist, known as much for his poetry which shimmers with the aromas, dialects and sighs of the land he loves so much, as he is for his art event curation, and his poetry movement, Poetry Couture, which attempts to create free spaces for poetry. His debut poetry "Make me Some Love to Eat"
Inaugural Episode with Dibyajyoti Sarma of Red River
Today, in the introductory episode of Red River Sessions, we have Dibyajyoti Sarma. Dibyajyoti is a poet and the heart and spirit behind Red River publishing house.
In three years, Dibyajyoti has published 50 poetry books and anthologies, each one immaculately edited and gorgeously designed. In this episode, we talk to him about why he decided to start Red River and focus only on poetry, about how
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