Poetry
-
‘...Everything, everything is gone’: The aesthetics of First World War poems and what they mean now
Rashmi Mehta
-
Jawad Memorial Prize for Urdu-English Translation: Read the two winning poems
Scroll Staff
-
‘Perhaps we matter in someone else’s dream’: Five poems from Mamang Dai’s new book of poetry
Mamang Dai
-
Three poems (and three translations) by Amit Chaudhuri from his newly published collection of poetry
Amit Chaudhuri
-
Remembering Pakistani poet Fahmida Riaz, who feared fanaticism everywhere
Saif Mahmood
-
‘We love life if we find a way to it’: Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish’s enduring absences
Kaushik Barua
-
‘Aai lost her navel to me and my brother’: This book of poems talks of the home a mother embodies
Manjiri Indurkar
-
‘We stretched our hands out to touch the light’: A new book of prose poems by Manav Kaul
Manav Kaul Nandini Kumar Nickerson
-
Can modern poetic techniques be used to translate the Bhagavad Gita?
Mani Rao
-
A/nil’s new book of poetry, ‘The Absent Color’, is a conversation – of, for, and by himself
Swati Singh
-
‘Don’t weep, my child; your mom will come’: A ghazal for a child in war-ravaged Gaza
Ammar Aziz
-
‘Varavara Rao: A Life in Poetry’: Six decades of activism and courage bound in one collection
Ila Manish
-
‘There is a ban even on breathing’: Leftist poet Birendra Chattopadhyay on the horrors of war
Birendra Chattopadhyay Sayandeb Chowdhury
-
‘Bodyfears, here I stand’: Remembering Gieve Patel, a man for the stage and the page
Anand Thakore
-
‘Soft brain/tough heart’: Gieve Patel (1940-2023), the poet who wrote about besieged corporeality
Gieve Patel Arundhathi Subramaniam
-
Louise Glück (1943-2023) honed her poetic voice across a lifetime to speak from beyond the grave
Amy Cannon, The Conversation
-
Meet Pramila Venkateswaran, winner of the Best Poetry Award at New York Book Festival
Shevlin Sebastian
-
Shanta Gokhale on why she and Jerry Pinto translated Marathi poet Tukaram’s hymns as a ‘jugalbandi’
Shanta Gokhale
-
‘Unscrew the mind and set it on the table’: Monica Mody’s poems embody the natural and the elemental
Monica Mody
-
Remembering the life and work of my ‘aged friend’, poet Jayanta Mahapatra, in his role of a reader
Abinash Dash Choudhury