The Atlas of Lost Beliefs

by Ranjit Hoskote

Part of our Arc International Poets series

Commenting on Hoskote's poetry on the Poetry International website, the poet and editor Arundhathi Subramaniam observes: "His writing has revealed a consistent and exceptional brilliance in its treatment of image. Hoskote's metaphors are finely wrought, luminous and sensuous, combining an artisanal virtuosity with passion, turning each poem into a many-angled, multifaced experience."

Pbk: 9781911469636
Ebk: 9781911469643
Published April 2020

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(Borders also falter in) Ranjit Hoskote's The Atlas of Lost Beliefs (Arc, £10.99). Hoskote is a poet, translator, cultural theorist, curator and art critic based in Mumbai, and this multifaceted thinking informs a generous embrace of hybridity in his work. ...more »

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"Ranjit published a book in 2018 with penguin in India, called Jonahwhale. It has now been released in the UK, with Arc, entitled The Atlas of Lost Beliefs. ...more »

S. J. Fowler (writer / poet / artist)

Ranjit Hoskote’s The Atlas of Lost Beliefs (2020) is an epic in three parts, the culmination of ‘a twenty-year-long project of research and translation”, as the biographical note states, which draws together dazzling meditations on history, language, colonialism, Herman Melville, Upanishadic philosophy, Vedic theology, art and the ocean. ...more »

Marek Sullivan, The Poetry Review, Vol. 110:3, Autumn 2020

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