Nabanita Sengupta in conversation with Sekhar Banerjee, the author of THE FERN-GATHERER'S ASSOCIATION in Saaranga Magazine.

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Now there is a craze for ‘ecopoetics’. But poetry is and always will remain dependent on our ecosystem and our immediate environment as long as we are organic beings and not straight-jacketed into some economy driven philosophy of life.  Light posts might have replaced trees and multistoried buildings might have replaced the singular home and metaphors and similes might have changed accordingly, but our raw emotions as human beings remain the same in all places alike. That’s why poetry is universal.

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Read the full interview here.

https://magazine.saarangabooks.com/in-the-green-world-of-poetry-a-conversation/