Imtiaz Dharker has refused to be Britain’s Poet Laureate. ‘The poems won,’ she said. She is right

Sohini Basak

· May 11, 2019 · 08:30 am

Watch: Kubbra Sait, Kunal Kapoor recite powerful poem on how thalassaemia affects lives

Scroll Staff

· May 08, 2019 · 08:00 pm

Beyond ‘Rebecca’: Daphne du Maurier’s recently discovered poems reveal a writer of great versatility

Laura Varnam, The Conversation

· May 07, 2019 · 05:30 pm

This book of poetry weaves the intimate and the public, the private and the shared, into stories

Shikhandin

· May 05, 2019 · 08:30 am

‘The great leader’ appears in Varanasi in this poem about the city’s past and present

Ashwani Kumar

· Apr 26, 2019 · 05:30 pm

‘A Kind of Freedom Song’: In life and mythology, women find a voice after violence in these poems

Aditi Rao

· Apr 25, 2019 · 05:30 pm

#NaPoWriMo: 10 poets from India who are embracing (and excelling at) National Poetry Writing Month

Rohini Kejriwal

· Apr 21, 2019 · 12:30 pm

‘Terrarium’: A debut poetry collection that is therapeutic, nuanced and bursting with wisdom

Niyati Bhat

· Apr 20, 2019 · 07:30 am

Mustansir Dalvi’s dexterous poetry seeks a promise of cosmopolitanism from the reader

Maithreyi Karnoor

· Apr 14, 2019 · 08:30 am

‘Faith is trapped in the teeth of fire’: Two poems by Gulzar on India today

Gulzar

· Apr 13, 2019 · 05:30 pm

‘Out of Syllabus’: Three poems from Sumana Roy’s dazzling debut collection

Sumana Roy

· Apr 09, 2019 · 08:30 am

Akhil Katyal’s poetry observes, records, and churns present-day truths

Niyati Bhat

· Apr 07, 2019 · 08:30 am

Thousands of years before becoming a vegan hit, the jackfruit was an intrinsic part of Sangam poetry

Veena Muthuraman

· Apr 06, 2019 · 07:45 am

‘An assemblage of images’: How Delhi and its architecture influenced the poetry of Octavio Paz

Manan Kapoor, Sahapedia

· Mar 31, 2019 · 05:30 pm

How do you select and translate Urdu ghazals by 65 poets written over 500 years? Ask Anisur Rahman

Maaz Bin Bilal

· Mar 31, 2019 · 12:30 pm

‘The Veiled Suite’: Rereading Agha Shahid Ali 10 years after his collected poems were published

Radhika Oberoi

· Mar 30, 2019 · 05:30 pm

Kamal Kumar Tanti’s poems present the politics and poignance of being marginalised in a distant land

Hansda Sowvendra Shekhar

· Mar 23, 2019 · 08:30 am

Why we don’t need one World Poetry Day a year to savour the joys of poetry

Anupama Raju

· Mar 21, 2019 · 06:30 pm

This new ghazal by Javed Akhtar is a clarion call for writers to wield their pens in dark times

Javed Akhtar

· Mar 21, 2019 · 12:30 pm

‘How my debut poetry manuscript was edited to become a full-fledged book’

Urvashi Bahuguna

· Mar 17, 2019 · 09:02 am