On the Other Side of Silence (Paperback)

by Mohammad Shafiqul Islam

Category: English Poem

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With fifty-three poems, On the Other Side of Silence (2025), published from Red River, New Delhi, India, is Mohammad Shafiqul Islam’s third collection of poetry. His two other collections are Inner State (Daily Star Books, 2020) and Wings of Winds (Adorn Publication, 2015). The poems in this present collection, On the Other Side of Silence, address silence from a wide range of perspectives in relation to sounds and shades, dubbing silence as a powerful tool to resist violence and reclaim rights to voices to be heard. Although the collection deals with various themes and subject matters, a majority of the poems “celebrate silence,” since, the poet probably assumes, the world is turning more brutal amidst chaos day by day. Reality of the contemporary world is what the poems highlight. The poet is rooted in broadly South Asia and more specifically Bangladesh, his own country and culture, so most of the raw material of his poetry springs from his own land, but he also demonstrates his awareness, as the poems suggest, to countries and cultures across borders.

On the Other Side of Silence might be a valuable addition to Postcolonial poetry or South Asian writing in English in general and Bangladeshi poetry in English in particular. The stream called South Asian writing in English has already drawn international attention and many of the writers and poets are studied at both home and abroad at the tertiary level. Moreover, readership in Bangladesh, India, and beyond, especially around South Asia, is rising rapidly, and academics, creative writers, scholars, and critics are, no doubt, optimistic about its wider readership around the world.

Title	On the Other Side of Silence
Author	Mohammad Shafiqul Islam
Publisher	Self Published
ISBN	9789348111524
Edition	First Edition June 2025
Number of Pages	86
Country	Bangladesh
Language	English

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Mohammad Shafiqul Islam

Mohammad Shafiqul Islam is the author of three poetry collections titled On the Other Side of Silence, Inner State, and Wings of Winds, 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 research articles, poetry, and translations have appeared in Journal of Postcolonial Writing, Massachusetts Review, Modern Poetry in Translation, Five Points, Critical Survey, Journal of World Literature, South Asian Review, Forum for World Literature Studies, Journal of Poetry Therapy, Caribbean Quarterly, English, Review of English Studies, Comparative Literature: East & West, English in Education, Psychological Perspectives, Scrutiny2, Journal of Global Postcolonial Studies, Agenda, Asia Pacific Translation and Intercultural Studies, Capitalism Nature Socialism, and elsewhere. His work has been anthologized in a number of books such as Narratives of Trauma in South Asian Literature, Sustainability in South Asian Cities, Writing Disaster in South Asian Literature and Culture, The Book of Dhaka: A City in Short Fiction, Kazi Nazrul Islam: Selections, The Best Asian Poetry, When the Mango Tree Blossomed, An Ekushey Anthology 1952-2022, Meet Human Meat and Other Stories, and Poems from the SAARC Region. He has also presented a good number of papers in international conferences and participated in workshops on research, literary translation, and creative writing at home and abroad. Professor in the Department of English, Shahjalal University of Science and Technology, Sylhet, Bangladesh, Dr Islam is at work on his new poems and a few research and translation projects.