‘The irony of desire in boxes’: Six poems to remind us of life (and death) on Zoom during Covid-19

Saumya R Kedia

· Feb 28, 2021 · 05:30 pm

Why we need poet John Keats’s concept of suspending judgment in today’s polarised world

Richard Gunderman, The Conversation

· Feb 26, 2021 · 05:30 pm

A ‘new’ poetry find has left lovers of Sappho thrilled, but its backstory may have been fabricated

C Michael Sampson, The Conversation

· Feb 23, 2021 · 05:30 pm

How poetry can make us both laugh and think (providing added reasons to read it)

Christina Thatcher, The Conversation

· Feb 12, 2021 · 05:30 pm

Poet Amanda Gorman’s riff on love as legacy points to youth’s power to shape future generations

Heather Lawford, The Conversation Heather L Ramey, The Conversation Jessica Riddell, The Conversation

· Feb 08, 2021 · 05:30 pm

‘The Great Bengali Poetry Underground’: An anthology that dives beneath the calm surface

Rajat Chaudhuri

· Feb 05, 2021 · 05:30 pm

‘The Mappila Verses’: Where do we go if our names are not in the list?

Ajmal Khan AT

· Feb 01, 2021 · 05:30 pm

Watch: Hindi poetry performance evaluates the ‘state of our democracy’ based on the events of 2020

Scroll Staff

· Jan 26, 2021 · 12:14 pm

Watch: Amanda Gorman explains how the US Capitol siege inspired her Inauguration Day poem

Scroll Staff

· Jan 22, 2021 · 10:41 am

‘The Hidden Garden’: This book examines Mir Taqi Mir’s life through his incomparable poetry

Gopi Chand Narang

· Jan 13, 2021 · 05:30 pm

On late actor Irrfan’s birth anniversary, listen to his recitation of Anuradha Gakhar’s poem ‘Kammo

Scroll Staff

· Jan 07, 2021 · 06:24 pm

Christmas conjunction of planets: Ten anthems for the solar system

Abhay K

· Dec 21, 2020 · 05:30 pm

Weekend Quiz: Which 18th-century Kerala art form accompanies the recitation of satirical verse?

The Heritage Lab

· Dec 19, 2020 · 03:30 pm

‘This thing is real’: Poet and actor Sainee Raj explains what living with anxiety is like

Scroll Staff

· Dec 18, 2020 · 11:27 am

Mangalesh Dabral (1948-2020): ‘It’s my heart, not my feet, that’s traversing this vexed world’

Mangalesh Dabral

· Dec 11, 2020 · 08:30 am

Watch: Journalist Salil Tripathi’s poem for his mother about the Babri demolition, Gujarat, 1947

Scroll Staff

· Dec 06, 2020 · 10:44 am

‘You say nothing, you speak of no one, we hear each other breathe’: Eight poems by Anupama Raju

Anupama Raju

· Nov 30, 2020 · 08:30 am

Exiled and distanced from its home, Tibetan writing has long reflected the spirit of the pandemic

Kaushik Barua

· Nov 28, 2020 · 11:30 am

‘How many more days this way, democracy?’: Five poems of lamentation and love from Assam

Urvashi Bahuguna

· Nov 15, 2020 · 12:30 pm

This new anthology of love poems from India sweeps through histories, geographies and societies

Abhay K

· Nov 04, 2020 · 05:30 pm