Pakistani poet Fahmida Riaz is 72. These poems show she is in relentless pursuit of a new order

Fahmida Riaz Raza Naeem

· Jul 28, 2018 · 05:30 pm

Ibne Safi, unlikely combination of poet and pulp fiction writer, would have been 90 this year

Ibne Safi

· Jul 26, 2018 · 05:30 pm

Community, tradition and struggle: Inside India’s first government-funded transgender poetry meet

Upasana Agarwal

· Jul 22, 2018 · 05:30 pm

Blistering and unapologetic: The poems in this powerful collection throb with surefooted anger

Akhil Katyal

· Jun 30, 2018 · 12:30 pm

Kashmir, Pakistan, Islam: How poet Fatimah Asghar’s different diasporas inform her work

Urvashi Bahuguna

· Jun 24, 2018 · 08:30 am

Pride month: Seven poems to remind us of desire in all its forms

Rohini Kejriwal

· Jun 23, 2018 · 12:30 pm

‘I believe in being the fringe. It helps keep my poetry alive’: How Naran is redefining Tamil poetry

Kavitha Muralidharan

· Jun 10, 2018 · 06:30 pm

With the sea and the whale, it is present times that resonate in Ranjit Hoskote’s new book of poems

Anupama Raju

· May 13, 2018 · 05:30 pm

Tamil poet Subramania Bharati died in poverty, but his works sparked an unparalleled copyright war

AR Venkatachalapathy

· May 10, 2018 · 05:30 pm

Meet Imran Pratapgarhi, the rockstar poet who draws tens of thousands of fans at Urdu mushairas

Wasi Manazir

· Apr 25, 2018 · 11:30 am

Watch: Poetry meets video to break the shackles of a gendered, heteronormative society

Satvika Kundu

· Apr 17, 2018 · 08:00 pm

As temperatures soar, Kalidasa’s classic text ‘Ritusamharam’ provides verses for summer

Kalidasa

· Apr 17, 2018 · 05:30 pm

Halfway through National Poetry Month, here are some #NaPoWriMo poets from India worth following

Rohini Kejriwal

· Apr 14, 2018 · 08:30 am

Watch: This poem on video is an immersive experience of how homophobia feels in 2018

Scroll Staff

· Apr 12, 2018 · 05:00 pm

‘Sanskarnama’: Poetry that reflects the politics of our times (which we cannot flinch from)

Nabina Das

· Apr 09, 2018 · 06:30 pm

Why we must not forget Robert Frost when we read modern poetry. He made the everyday extraordinary

M Saad

· Apr 08, 2018 · 03:30 pm

Freezing the moment: A celebration of Haiku by poets from India

Rohini Kejriwal

· Apr 08, 2018 · 07:00 am

‘I Don’t Have Wings’: Arvind Krishna Mehrotra on the works of Hindi writer Vinod Kumar Shukla

Arvind Krishna Mehrotra

· Mar 24, 2018 · 12:30 pm

Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind: Why no one has stopped reading the poet Shakti Chattopadhyay

Maitreyee Bhattacharjee Chowdhury

· Mar 23, 2018 · 05:30 pm

Kedarnath Singh (1934-2018) was above all a humanist poet, profound in his simplicity

Santosh Alex

· Mar 23, 2018 · 08:30 am