Poetry
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‘Why do we submit? / to fracturing?’: A poetry anthology of South Asian women’s traumas
Lopamudra Basu Feroza Jussawalla Vivimarie Vanderpoorten Soniah Kamal
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For young readers: Poems about the various small, astonishing creatures we share the planet with
Zai Whitaker
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‘Map of Memories’: Experimental poems resonate with the poet’s identity as migrant, scholar, thinker
Shyamasri Maji
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‘The day begins with endings’: A new book of poetry about topography, time, and shifting identities
Siddhartha Menon
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‘Frequently, heaven erupts’: A new book of poetry takes readers across 37 Indian cities
Siddharth Dasgupta Arun Kolatkar Nandini Sen Mehra Satya Dash Malovika Pawar Ashwani Kumar Jayant Parmar Riyaz Latif Gopal Lahiri
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‘The Last Time I Saw You’: A compelling portrait of an artist grappling with the loss of his muse
Yamini Krishnan
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‘I have seen time / Gathering in a contained space’: Gulzar writes to Rumi, Pancham, and friends
Gulzar Sathya Saran
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‘What remains / are the poems, the songs / that mortality sings’: Griffin Poetry Prize winning poems
Durs Grünbein Karen Leeder
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Seagull Books publication ‘Psyche Running’ wins Griffin Poetry Prize for Durs Grünbein, Karen Leeder
Scroll Staff
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‘In steps, in leaps’: Meera Ganapathi’s new book of prose-poems about the joys of walking in a city
Meera Ganapathi
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‘The umbrellas are on a protest march’: Bishnu Mohapatra’s poems on rain for a desolate May
Sayandeb Chowdhury
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‘I am not scared / I am not alone’: A young girl and a temple elephant become friends
Ranjeeta Raam
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Twinkle, twinkle, little star: Cosmology and the composition of verse
John Drew
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‘I always remember the streets, the stone’: Two poets write about cities around the world
Jeet Thayil John Kinsella
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‘With Earth as My Witness’: Poetry as meditation on the profane and sacred, the human and the divine
Smitha Sehgal
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‘I am a house of wounds / All my rooms are filled with blood’: Poems recalling the horrors of war
K Satchidanandan
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‘We have no gift to set a statesman right’: Three poems by WB Yeats about the mindlessness of wars
WB Yeats
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‘Foreheads of men have bled where no wounds were’: A young soldier-poet denounces war
Wilfred Owen
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‘The sun is a lizard and the earth is an egg’: A new book of fables by Suniti Namjoshi
Suniti Namjoshi
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‘The world transfers / Man / Into its own / Resonance’: Five poems about humanity’s ‘zero hour’
Anu Majumdar