Inner State (Paperback)

Mohammad Shafiqul Islam is the author of two poetry collections, most recently Inner State, and the translator of, among others, Selected Poems: Rudra Muhammad Shahidullah, The Glorious Afternoon, Humayun Ahmed: Selected Short Stories, and Aphorisms of Humayun Azad. His work has appeared in various renowned international journals and magazines, including Journal of Postcolonial Writing, Critical Survey, Massachusetts Review, Five Points, Scrutiny2, Delos, Poem: International English Language Quarterly, Journal of World Literature, English in Education, Psychological Perspectives, Agenda, South Asian Review, English: Journal of the English Association, Journal of Poetry Therapy, The Review of English Studies, Journal of International Women’s Studies, Asia Pacific Translation and Intercultural Studies, Capitalism Nature Socialism, Comparative Literature: East & West, Modern Poetry in Translation, Dibur, Lunch Ticket, Vittles, and elsewhere. His poetry and translation have been anthologized in a number of books, such as The Book of Dhaka: A City in Short Fiction, The Best Asian Poetry 2021-22, Poems from SAARC Region 2013, When the Mango Tree Blossomed, An Ekushey Anthology 1952-2022, Kazi Nazrul Islam: Selections, Meet Human Meat and Other Stories, and Monsoon Letters: Collection of Poems. Currently at work on new poems and a few translation and research projects, Dr Islam is Professor in the Department of English at Shahjalal University of Science and Technology, Sylhet, Bangladesh.