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Sonnet joins The Abandoned Towers magazine as its poetry editor. 

Sonnet's 7th book Diorama of Three Diaries has been released  from Authorspress, New Delhi

Sonnet Mondal has been announced as the editor of "Sonnets in the New Millennium" to be published by Diamond Point Press, U.S.A in 2012.

Sonnet bags the Azsacra International Poetry award 
Sonnet's poetry to appear in Midwest Literary Magazine,The Friction Magazine(New Castle University) and The Skive Magazine of Australia.

Sonnet's poem and bio featured in the Sunday supplement of The Seven Sister Post newspaper.
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Sonnet Mondal appear's in an exclusive interview with ISahitya

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“In ‘Talk to Isahitya’ we have Sonnet Mondal, a young Kolkata based internationally recognized poet and editor, who has the credit of inventing the “21-line Caudate Sonnet”. He is one of the probable Nobel Prize for Literature nominees, 2012....Sonnet’s prowess as a poet and an editor is unquestionable as evident from his widely published works and from the fact that he is the founder & managing editor of one of the finest and widely read literary magazines, The Enchanting Verses Literary Review.” -ISahitya
                                                                                                                                                                                                 Click here to see the full feature

Latest Book - Diorama of Three Diaries published by Authorspress, New Delhi

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About the content or theme on the poems, we find at first sight,  a neorealist effect in his verses that reminds me from the following quote. "In neorealistic film, day-to-day reality is seen from crepuscular, intimistic, credulous, and above all naturalistic point of view... (from Pasolini on Pasolini by Oswald Stack, 1970). Far away from this initial confusion, Mondal´s book can be described more effectively as a society poetry book.
Maria Christina Azcona, Argentina 
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"His simple and direct style has reformed the traditional way of composition which has brought him even more close to poetry loving readers. His poems shining as diamonds with many rays penetrate darkness.”

Dr. Maurus Young
President of World Academy of Arts and Culture & World Congress of Poets

 

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 His yearning for pre-lapsarian paradise, aligns him with the Romantics; his inherent resistance to dehumanizing social structures merits comparison with Blake; his sensitivity to the numinous binds him to Hopkins.

Patricia Prime in Writers,Editors and Critics journal of the Guild of Indian English writers

 

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"He writes about everyday life and people with empathy and tremendous sensitivity.  Throughout, there is a music which makes his work universal."


Albert Russo, France
1996 jury for the prestigious Neustadt International Prize .

 

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"Sonnet Mondal reflects in his poetry modern India, ruined by modern values, where money or faked sentiments do not seem to offer any consolation for alienated lyric self, who drowns his sorrows in a glass of alcohol, where his image stares him back.” 
Rita Dahl, Finnish Poet
Former  chair of the committee of women writers of Finnish PEN.
"Poet Joseph Harker contributes a tasty blend of romance & literary hilarity to get you through the impending cold dry nights; a sumptuous pairing with Sonnet Mondal’s melancholy strophes of nostalgia."



Media Virus Magazine ISSUE 26
"Massive monuments of man’s misanthropic malevolence to man say as much of the beauty we’re capable of as it does of the horror we can inflict upon the one who holds the chisel, not the whip. The hands of a slave are an artist’s hands, a beautiful concept from Mr. Mondal."
Editor's Note,Mad Swirl journal
06.23.11


"Sonnet Mondal's sobering Last Wish Declined tackled the controversial issue of the ultimate sanction, capital punishment."





Sunday Editorial, Poetry24 journal
07.06.11
"Participation of Sonnet Mondal in Struga Poetry Evenings will be a grea step towards increasing the cultural cooperation between the two countries-India and Macedonia."
 


Danilo Kosevski, Director, Struga Poetry Evenings.

 

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The President of India has appreciated your work especially your poem "The Portrait of the Deer".
President of India's Secretariat on behalf of Dr. A.P.J Abdul Kalam

 

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"I appreciate your thinking of me.I wish you all the best in your endeavours."

 Drew Faust,
President, Harvard.

 

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I am Happy to know that Sonnet would be awarded  
Poet Laureate.
Congratulations.

Taslima Nasrin

 

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"I appreciate Sonnet for his passion and sustained interest in the subject ."

Bhaskar Sen,
CMD, United Bank of India.

Speech at Kolkata Press Club on 21st March, World Poetry Day

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“Poetry in its own place is still right
With its Heritage colorful and bright”
The above verses is my answer to a question I have always faced almost everywhere and perhaps every poets faces this-How do you see the future and prospects of Poetry in present days?Except in the Elizabethan era where poetry was the main medium of expressing literature, it has never been so much popular as compared to short stories or novels. As we have stepped into the present era of Poetry. Read More

Speech at Bengal Engineering & Science University

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During the first few days of my stepping into BESU it was like a leap of a fish out of the water. Home-sickness was common in the faces of all new comers but strangely it lasted maximum for three to four weeks. After this period, I began to fel this university as my home and now whenever I come to Kolkata for any other jobs, in the sublimity of my mind there’s always a support, a big support-that is, I have my second home here. Read More