List Of Works
OWN WORKS IN MALAYALAM
(A) Poetry
1. ANCHU SOORYAN (Five Suns, 1971).
2. ATMAGITA (The Song of the Self, 1974).
3. KAVITA (Poetry, 1977, 82, 84).
4. INDIAN SKETCHUKAL (Indian Sketches, 1978).
5. EZHUTHACHAN EZHUTUMBOL (When the Poet Writes, 1979, 85, 87, 89).
6. PEEDANA KALAM (Times of Torment, 1981, 89).
7. VENAL MAZHA (The Summer Rain, 1982).
8. RANDU DEERGHA KAVYANGAL (Two Long Poems, 1983).
9. SATCHIDANANDANTE KAVITHAKAL 1962-82 ((Poems 1962-82, 1983, 87).
10. SOCRATEESUM KOZHIYUM (Socrates and the Cock, 1984).
11. IVANEKKOODI (Him, too, 1987, 89, 90, 95, 97).
12. VEEDUMATTAM (Changing House, 1988).
13. KAYATTAM (The Ascent, 1990).
14. KAVIBUDDHAN (The Poet as Buddha, 1992).
15. ENTE SATCHIDANANDAN KAVITAKAL, Ed. Balachandran Chullikkad (Selected poems 1993, 2014).
16. DESATANAM (Going Places, 1994, 1995).
17. MALAYALAM (1996, 1998, 2003)).
18. APOORNAM (Imperfect, 1998).
19. THERANJEDUTHA KAVITAKAL (Selected Poems, 1999).
20. SAMBHASHANATHINU ORU SRAMAM (An Attempt to Converse, 2000).
21. VIKKU, (Stammer, 2002).
22. SAKSHYANGAL (Witness, 2004).
23. GHAZALUKAL, GEETANGAL (Ghazals and Geets, 2005).
24. SATCHIDANANDTE KAVITHAKAL : 3 Volumes(Poems 1965-2005, 2006).
25. ANANTAM (Infinite, 2006).
26. ONNAAM PADHAM (THE FIRST LESSON,2006).
27. ENTE KAVITA (MY POEMS,2008).
28. MARANNU VECHA VASTHUKKAL ( MISPLACED OBJECTS, 2009).
29. BAHUROOPI (POLYMORPHOUS,2011).
30 TATHAGATAM ( 2013).
31 NILKKUNNA MANUSHYAN( THE STANDING MAN,2015).
32 MALAYALATHINTE PRIYAKAVITHAKAL, ( POEMS DEAR TO MALAYALAM), 20I5.
33 SATCHIDANANDANTE KAVITHAKAL , 1965-2015, ( COLLECTED POEMS IN A SINGLE VOLUME ) 2016.
34 SAMUDRANGALKKU MAATHRAMALLA ( NOT ONLY THE OCEANS), 2017.
35 PAKSHIKAL ENTE PIRAKE VARUNNU (2019).
36 PAKSHIKKAVITAKAL (Bird Poems, for children, 2019).
37 PASHUVUM PULIYUM (Poems for children, 2019).
38 ENTE INDIA, ENTE HRUDAYAM (Anti-Fascist poems, 2019).
39 DUKHAM ENNA VEEDU (2019).
40 ORU CHERIYA VASANTHAM (2019).
41 IRUTTILE PATTUKAL (2022).
(B) Plays1 SAKTAN THAMPURAN (One-act Plays, 1983).
2 GANDHI (Full-length Play, 1995,2013).
1 KURUKSHETRAM (Studies in Modern Poetry, 1970).
2. JANATAYUM KAVITAYUM ((Poetry and the People, 1982, 84)
3. MARXIAN SOUNDARYA SASTRAM (Marxian Aesthetics, 1983,90)
4. THIRANJEDUTHA LEKHANANGAL (Selected Essays, 1985).
5. PABLO NERUDA (A Lecture on Pablo Neruda, 1985,1990,Revised,2007)).
6. SAMVADANGAL (Dialogues: on society, culture, politics, religion education, ecology and literature, 1986).
7. SAMEEPANANGAL (Approaches, 1986).
8. SAMSKARATHINTE RASHTREEYAM (The Politics of Culture, 1989, 2013).
9. SAMBHASHANANGAL (Conversations: a collection of Interviews given, 1989).
10. BRECHTINTE KALA (The Art of Bertolt Brecht, 1989, Revised, 2007).
11. PADAVUKAL (Steps: Early articles, 1990).
12. KAZHCHAKAL, KAZHACHAPPADUKAL (Sights and Visions: Travelogues, 1991).
13. ANVESHANANGAL (Enquiries, 1991).
14. VEENDUVICHARANGAL (Rethinkings, 1992).
15. SOUNDARYAVUM ADHIKARAVUM (Beauty and Power : on Aesthetics and Politics, 1993).
16. MUHURTANGAL (Moments, selected Essays on Malayalam Literature, 1996).
17. PALA LOKAM, PALA KALAM (Many Times, Many Worlds, Travel Writings, 1998).
18. KALAYUM NISHEDHAVUM (Art and Dissent, 1999).
19. BHARATEEYA KAVITAYILE PRATIRODHA PARAMPARYAM (The Tradition of Dissent of Indian Poetry, 2002).
20. MOONNU YATRA (Three Travels, Travelogues, 2004).
21. KIZHAKKUM PADINJARUM (East and West, Travelogues, 2005).
22. ADITHATTUKAL (Foundations, Essays, 2006).
23. MUKHAMUKHAM (Interviews, 2006).
24. MALAYALAKAVITAPADHANANGAL ( Studies in Malayalam Poetry,Criticism, 2009, 2012).
25. DARSANANGALUDE RITUBHEDANGAL ( Vision Has its Seasons, Articles, 2010).
26. VITHUM VRIKSHAVUM ( The Seed and the Tree, Literary Essays, 2012).
27. SAHITYAVUM PRATIRODHAVUM ( Literature and Resistance, Essays, 2013).
28. ANUBHAVAM, ORMA, YATRA ( Memoirs, 2013).
29. VAROO, EE RAKTHAM KANOO ( Articles, 2017).
30. DAKSHINAM (Travelogues, 2018).
31. ATMAGATANGAL (Talks, 2018).
32. THERANJEDUTHA LEKHANANGAL (Selected Essays, 2018).
33. KAVITHAYUDE MUKHANGAL (Articles on Poetry, 2018).
34. CHINTAYUDE MANANGAL (Dimensions of Thought,2019).
35. ORMMAYUDEYUM MARAVIYUDEYUM PUSTHAKAM (The Book of Memorie and Forgetting, Autobiographical essays 2021).
36. IDAPEDALUKAL (Interventions, Collected Articles on Non-literary Issues, 2021).
37. ORU THULLI AFRICA (Travelogues, 2022).
38. KAVITHAYKKU ORU VEEDU (A House for Poetry, 2022).
SATCHIDANANDAN’S POETRY IN OTHER LANGUAGES1. ANDHA ADMI JISNE SOORYA KHOJA (Selected Poems, Hindi, Delhi, 1987).
2. SELECTED POEMS (Gujarati, Ahmedabad1989).
3. IRACHASAKSHIGAL (Selected Poems, Tamil, Coimbatore, 1990).
4. SUMMER RAIN: Three Decades of Poetry (English, Delhi, 1995).
5. VOH JISE SAB YAD THA (Selected Poems, Hindi, Delhi, 1996).
6. NANNA MAI NAGARA (Selected Poems, Kannada, Bangalore, 1996).
7. HOW TO GO TO THE TAO TEMPLE (New Poems, English, Delhi, 1998).
8. SACHIDANANDAN KAVITAIKAL (Selected Poems, Tamil, Chennai, 1998).
9. SAREERAM ORU NAGARAM (Selected Poems, Tamil, Chennai, 1999).
10. APOORNA AUR ANYA KAVITAYEM (Poems, Hindi, Delhi, 2000).
11. IMPERFECT AND OTHER NEW POEMS (Poems, English, Calicut, 2000).
12. SAGAR TEERER KAVITA (Poems, Assamese, Guwahati, 2001).
13. SACHIDANANDANER KAVITA (Poems, Bengali, Kolkata, 2001).
14. SO MANY BIRTHS (Poems, English, Delhi, 2001).
15. KAVITAI MEENDUM VARUM (Poems, Tamil, Chennai, 2002).
16. PEELE PATHE DA SUPNA (Poems, Punjabi, Delhi, 2002).
17. GHAR O ANYANYA KABITA (Poems, Oriya, Cuttack, 2002).
18. TANT DE VIES: L’Incomplet et autres poemes (Poems, French, Paris, 2002).
19. HAKLAHAT (Poems, Hindi, Delhi, 2004).
20. HAM JAZEERAUN MEIN RAHTE HEIN (Poems, Urdu, Hyderabad, 2004).
21. SAREERAM OKA NAGARAM (Poems, Telugu, Hyderabad, 2004).
23. SURUAATEM ( Poems, Hindi, Delhi,2005).
24. STAMMER AND OTHER POEMS(Poems, English, Delhi,2005).
25. ICH GLAUBE NICHT AN GRENZEN ( Poems, German, Heidelberg,2006).
26. LUKNAT ( Poems, Urdu, Aurangabad,2008 ).
27. LUKAN-CHHIPI ( Poems, Hindi, 2008).
28. HOW DID MAYAKOVSKY COMMIT SUICIDE ( Poems, Arabic, Abu Dhabi,2009).
29. GAVAHIYAN ( Poems, Hindi, Delhi,2010).
30. MISPLACED THINGS ( Poems, English, Delhi, 2010).
31. WHILE I WRITE (Poems, English, Delhi,2011).
32. ROGHA DANTA ( Poems, Irish, Dublin, 2012).
33. K. SATCHIDANANDAN YANCHI KAVITA ( Poems, Marathi, 2013).
34. SELECTED POEMS ( Poems, Chinese, 2015).
35. AKKA HOLIYUVATHE ( Poems, Kannada,2015).
36. THE MISSING RIB ( Collected Poems, English, 2015).
37. SELECTED POEMS ( Oriya, 2017).
38. CHUNEE HUYEE KAVITHAAYEN (Hindi, 2018).
39. THE WHISPERING TREE (English, Love Poems 2020).
40. NO BORDERS FOR ME (English, Travel Poems, 2020).
41. I AM ALANGAUGE ( English, Poems on Poetry and Language, 2021).
42. QUESTIONS FROM THE DEAD ( English, New Poems, 2021).
43. BHOOLEE HUEE CHEEZEM ( Hindi, 2021).
44. SELECTED POEMS ( Japanese, 2020).
45. SELECTED POEMS ( Spanish, 2020).
46. SELECTED POEMS ( Oriya, 2021).
47. SELECTED POEMS ( Assamese , 2021).
48. SELECTED POEMS ( Kannada , 2021).
49. SELECTED POEMS ( Bangla, 2022).
50. SELECTED POEMS ( Telugu, 2022).
PROSE IN OTHER LANGUAGES51. MARXIYA AZHAGIYAR (Marxian Aesthetics, Tamil, 1986).
52. BHARATIYA SAHITYA : STHAPANAYEM AUR PRASTHAVANAYEM (Indian Literature : Positions and Propositions, Hindi, 2003).
WORKS EDITED ( HINDI)1. TANA-BANA: Indian Poetry after Independence; with Kedar Nath Singh (Delhi, 1999).
SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY Malayalam1. SATCHIDANANDANTE LOKANGAL : (The Worlds of Satchidanandan) : Essays on the poets’ works.
2. ALILAYUM NELKKATHIRUM ( Studies on the Works of Satchidanandan ).
3. NAVASARGAM : Dr. M. Leelavathy ( A Chapter on the Poet).
4. HARITHA NIROOPANAM MALAYALATHIL : Ed. G. Madhusudanan (An eco-aesthetic study on the poem, Ezhimala).
5. BIBLE ADHUNIKA KAVITHAYIL, Fr. Joseph Cheeran (A l00-page Chapter on Bible and Satchidanandan’s Poetry).
6. SAMBHASHANANGAL : Conversations with Satchidanandan.
7. MUKHAMUKHAM: Interviews with Satchidanandan.
8. GRANTHALOKAM, Monthly, Special Issue on Satchidanandan.
9. MATHRUBHUMI WEEEKLY, Special Issue on Satchidanandan at 70).
10. Souhrudathinte Sathyavangmoolam ed. K. Radhakrishna Variyar, 2021.
11. Articles and Interviews by Mangad Ratnakaran, 2022.
1. MALAYALAM LITERARY SURVEY : Kerala Sahitya Akademi, Trichur (Article ‘Under the Bodhi Tree : A Study of the Images of Thathagatha in Satchidanandan’s poems’ by Dr. A.R. Vijayaraghavan.
2. MAKING IT NEW : IIAS, Shimla 1995 : E.V. Ramakrishnan (Chapter ‘Living on the Faultline : The Poetry of Satchidanandan; also Interview).
3. INDIAN REVIEW OF BOOKS , Chennai, 8 Dec-Jan.1998-99. Review Article, ‘Sensitive Reflections’ by Pramod Menon.
4. THE BOOK REVIEW, Delhi, April 2001, Review Article, ‘The Dialectic of Poetry’ by E.V. Ramakrishnan.
5. WORLD LITERATURE TODAY, Minnesota, Spring 2002, Review Article, ‘So Many Births’ by John Oliver Perry.
6. DECCAN HERALD, Bangalore, 4 Oct. 2003, Article ‘Reminiscences of a Poet’ by Lekshmy Rajeev
7. GBD’S OF ASSAM LETTERS, Guwahati, 2004, Article ‘Reflection’s on Life’ by Jaykanta Sharma.
8. HOW TO GO TO THE TAO TEMPLE, Delhi, 1998, ‘Modernism and Beyond’, Interview by Makarand Paranjape.
9. THE GULF TODAY, Dubai, 24 May 2001, ‘Packaging Exotic Life’, Interview.
10. THE CREATIVE MIND, Delhi, July-Sept. 2004, ‘Master Magician in Literature’, Interview and article by Sujata Chowdhuri.
1. MARXIYA AZHAGIYAR (Marxian Aesthetics, Tamil, 1986).
2. BHARATIYA SAHITYA : STHAPANAYEM AUR PRASTHAVANAYEM (Indian Literature : Positions and Propositions, Hindi, 2003).
ORIGINAL WORKS IN ENGLISH1. INDIAN LITERATURE: POSITIONS AND PROPOSITIONS (Essays on Indian Literature,Delhi, 1999).
2. AUTHORS, TEXTS, ISSUES : (Do,Do, 2002).
3. INDIAN LITERATURE, PARADIGMS AND PRAXIS ( Do,Do,2008).
4. READINGS : Essays in Indian Literature ( Delhi, 2009).
4. POSITIONS (Selected Essays on Indian Literature, 2019).
4. PERSPECTIVES (Essays on Kerala Culture and Literature, 2022).
TRANSLATIONS OF POETRY INTO MALAYALAM1. THIRANJEDUTHA KAVITAKAL ( Selected Poems of Nazrul Islam), Trichur,1976 .
2. NERUDAYUDE KAVITAKAL ( Selected Poems of Pablo Neruda, Trivandrum, 1976; Reissued with more poems from Calicut, 1985, 87, 98) .
3. JAIL DIARY ( Ho-Chi-Minh’s Prison Diary, Trivandrum, 1976, Kottayam 1982, Calicut, 1998).
4. BRECHTINTE NOORU KAVITHAKAL ( 100 poems of Bertolt Brecht, Calicut, 1985).
5. NALEYUDE KAVITA ( Poems by Alexandre Blok, Mayakovsky and Evtushenko. Irinjalakuda, 1982).
6. KARUTHA KAVITA ( Black Poetry from Three Continents,Badagara,1982,2012).
7. LATIN AMERICAN KAVITA ( Poetry from Latin America, Guruvayur,1982 ).
8. MAOYUDE KAVITAKAL ( Mao-tse Dong’s Poems, Kottayam, 1984 ).
9. KAVITAPARYADANANGAL ( Poetry from Acros the World, Ernakulam, 1986).
10. PATHU NAVEENA KAVIKAL ( Ten Modern Poets: Cesar Vallejo, Garcia Lorca, Giuseppe Ungaretti, Eugenio Montale, Yehuda Amichai, Chairil Anwar, Zbigniew Herbert, Attila Josef, Nazim Hikmet, Lu Hsun. Payyannur, 1989, Reissued as OLIVUM PALUNKUM with two more poets, Wislawa Zsymborsca and Mahmoud Darwish,. Trivandrum, 2009) .
11. NOORU RUSSIAN KAVITAKAL ( 100 Russian Poems, Calicut, 1989).
12. SAMAKALEENA HINDI KAVITA ( Contemporary Hindi Poetry, Calicut, 1989).
13. MAGADHA ( Sreekant Verma’s Long Hindi Poem, Magadh,Calicut, 1990).
.14. MUPPATHU INDIAN KAVAYITRIKAL ( 30 Indian Women Poets, calicut, 1990).
15. VAKKUKALUDE AKASAM ( Sitakant Mahapatra’s Oriya poems, Sabdara Akash,Delhi,1999).
16. URANGUNNAVARKKULLA KATHUKAL ( Modern Swedish Poetry, Kottayam, 2007).
17. PADINJARAN KAVITA ( Collected Translations from European Poetry, Calicut, 2008).
18. KETTIYITTA KOLADU ( The Last Poems of Kamala Das from Closure, Kottayam, 2010).
19. MARAM (Tansation of Safdar Hashmi’s Tree, Poety for children, Trivandrum, 2010).
20. MOONNAM LOKA KAVITA (Third World Poetry, Calicut), 2012.
21. INDIAN KAVITA (Indian Poetry, 2014).
22. PALALOKAKAVITHA (Poetry from Around the World, 2014).
23. DAIVAVUMAYULLA SAMBHASHANANGAL (Selections from Kabir,2021).
24. SHIVOHAM (Four Kannada Bhakti Poets,2021).
25. SUFIKAVITHAKAL (Poems by Bulle Shah, 2021).
TRANSLATIONS OF DRAMA INTO MALAYALAM1. LUCULLUSINTE VICHARANA ( Bertolt Brecht’s The Trial of Lucullus, in TWO BRECHT PLAYS , Trichur, 1978).
2. EZHU LAGHUNADAKANGAL ( Seven Short Plays by W. B. Yeats, Bertolt Brecht and Ben Caldwell, Delhi, 2010).
WORKS EDITED (MALAYALAM)1. HARISHREE (Modern Malayalam Poetry, Trichur,1972).
2. PUTHUPPIRAVI (Modern Malayalam Poetry, Irinjalakuda, 1982).
3. VAZHITHIRIVINTE KATHAKAL (Malayalam Short Stories, Irinjalakuda, 1982).
4. NERVAZHIKAL (Modern Malayalam Poetry, Calicut, 1990).
5. STREEPATANANGAL (Women’s Studies, Calicut1990).
6. MALAYALAKAVITA (Poetry, Trichur, 2001).
7. MOONNAMIDAM (Malayalam, Diasporic Poetry, Trichur,2000).
8. KAVITA VARSHAM, 2002 (Malayalam Poetry, Trichur, 2003).
9. DISHAKAL(Post-1947 Malayalm Poetry, New Delhi, 2007).
10. NALAMIDAM (Malayalam Blog Poems , Kottayam, 2010).
11. KAVYOTSAVAM (General Editor to a Series of Selected Works by Malayalam Poets, Kottayam, 2007-2008).
12. VISWASAHITYA GRANTHAMALA (Co-edited; A Series of Abridged World Classics, 2010).
WORKS EDITED (ENGLISH)1. WHO IS WHO OF INDIAN WRITERS,(Delhi, 1992).
2. KAVITA, 93 (Indian Poetry, Delhi, 1993).
3. UNDER THE WILD SKIES (Malayalam Short stories, Delhi, 1996).
4. GESTURES : Poetry from South Asia (Delhi, 1996).
5. SIGNATURES: 100 Modern Indian Poets (1998).
6. INDIAN POETRY: MODERNISM AND AFTER (Papers, Delhi, 2001).
7. ANTARAL : END-CENTURY LECTURES (Talks, Delhi, 2002).
8. AT HOME IN THE WORLD (Indian Writing, Delhi, 2002).
9. AUTHORS SPEAK (Talks, Delhi 2006).
10. CITY IN AN OYSTER (South Asian Short Stories by Women, 2008).
11. FOLKLORE: THE INTANGIBLE CULTURAL HERITAGE OF SAARC REGION (Seminar papers, Delhi, 2009).
12. MYTH IN CONTEMPORARY INDIAN LITERATURE (Seminar Papers, Delhi,2010).
13. GOLDEN BOAT (Indian Poems on River, Delhi, 2010).
14 FOLKLORE: ACROSS THE BOUNDARIES OF THE SAARC REGION ( Seminar Papers, Delhi, 2010).
15 TOGETHER WE SURVIVE ( Essays from SAARC Countries, Delhi, 2010).
16. BEYOND ANGUISH (Poetry from SAARC Countries,2011).
17. SILVER ANKLET AND OTHER STORIES ( Short stories from SAARC Countries,Delhi, 2012).
18. POETRY FROM SAARC COUNTRIES, Colombo, Sri Lanka (Indian Editor).
19. SONGS FROM THE SEASHORE,(Poetry from the Indian Ocean Rim, Delhi,2014) .
20. SHABAD (World Poetry Festival Anthology, Delhi, 2015).
21. WORDS MATTER ( Writings on Resistance, Delhi ,2016).
22. SELECTED ESSAYS, K. Ayyappa Paniker (Delhi, 2017).
23. SINGING IN THE DARK (Poems: Penguin ,2021).
24. GREENING THE EARTH ( Poems: Penguin, 2023).
German1. LITERATUR NACHRICHTEN, Frankfurt, February 2006 ‘Auch nach Tagoreline Mange intelligentes Schariben’, Interview.
2. ICH GLAUBE NICHT AN GRENZEN, Frankfurt,2006, Introduction , Interview.
3. Review of ICH GLAUBE AN GRENZEN,By Wolfgang Kubin, Orientierungen, 2/2007, University of Bonn, Germany, pp 159-160.
French1. TANT DE VIES : L’incomplet let it autres poems, Editions Chracteres, Paris,2002 ,Introduction by Martine Chemana.
2. RAGMALA, Anne Cestaing (ed.) Languages & Mondes, Paris, 2005, Article and Extract .
Italian1. INDIA, Rome, 2002, 2 Article, ‘Poesia di Satchidanandan’ by Antonio Menniti Ippolito.
2. I RITI DELLA TERRA, Castelvecchi, Rome, Feb.2005, Introduction, Giulia Gatti.