Published in the Streets of Dhaka: Collected Poems, 1966-2006 9789848715116, 9848715118

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P u b l is h e d

in t h e

St r e e t s

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D haka

C o l l e c t e d P o e m s 1966-2006

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Sa m e A u t h o r

P oetry Starting Lines: Poems 1968-75 (Dhaka: Liberty, 1978) A Little Ado: Poems 1976-77 (Dhaka: Granthabithi, 1978) A Happy Farewell (Dhaka: University Press Limited, 1994) Black Orchid (London: Aark Arts, 1996) The Logopathic Reviewer's Song (Dhaka: University Press Limited and London: Aark Arts, 2002) Selected Poems of Shamsur Rahman (translations) (Dhaka: BRAC 1985; enlarged edition, Pathak Samabesh, 2007) Contemporary Indian Poetiy (editor) University Press, 1990)

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Prose Translations Quartet (Rabindranath Tagore’s Chaturanga) (Oxford: Heinemann 1993, also in Tagore Omnibus Vol. I, Penguin India 2005) The Wonders of Vilayet (an 18th century Indian’s travel memoir) (Leeds: Peepal Tree Press, 2002)

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