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Jeet Thayil

‘How to Be a Leaf’: A poem by Jeet Thayil

‘Worship women and trees.’

Jeet Thayil
· Jan 01, 2024 · 01:15 pm
‘My kind of ideas are practical ideas. There is nothing ideological about them’: Poet Vijay Seshadri

‘In the macroscopic world of poetry, poets are still dealing with the issue of vocalisation and whether they like it not, they are committed to natural speech.’

Jeet Thayil
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John Wilkinson
· Apr 09, 2023 · 08:30 am
World Poetry Day: A new anthology of Indian poets writing in English is on its way

‘The book developed an end-of-the-world climate all its own,’ writes editor Jeet Thayil in his preface to ‘The Penguin Book of Indian Poets’.

Jeet Thayil
· Mar 21, 2022 · 08:30 am

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‘Unhappiness is a kind of yoga…’: Five poems by Jeet Thayil

A hand-picked selection from the collected works of one of India’s major English language poets.

Jeet Thayil
· Nov 14, 2015 · 06:35 pm