Poetry
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‘War? In this land? / Who told you?’: There’s a new anthology of Sri Lankan poetry in translation
Aazhiyaal Lakshmi Holmström Packiyanathan Ahilan Sascha Ebeling Upekala Bhagyanie Athukorala Vivimarie Vanderpoorten Ruwan Bandujeewa Chamini Kulathunga S Bose Shash Trevett
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‘You must write the poems you must write’: Five from K Srilata’s new book of poetry
K Srilata
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‘I describe love for you / As an Ali Sethi ghazal’: A new book of poetry about language and silence
Shruti Sonal
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‘My daily bread is my daily doubt’: Mumbai mill worker Narayan Surve’s poetry in translation
Narayan Surve Jerry Pinto
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‘Soma’: When AK Ramanujan wrote poems about his psychedelic experiments and their effects on him
Nachiket Joshi
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Watch: Hollywood stars recite Taylor Swift’s ‘Blank Space’ as a poem
Scroll Staff
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‘I shall speak of the lineage of the Raghus’: Kalidasa’s Raghuvamsa from the Murty Classical Library
Kalidasa Dominic Goodall Harunaga Isaacson Csaba Dez
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‘Subliminal’: Radha Chakravarty’s poetry shines a light on submerged realities
Veeksha Vagmita
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Ten years after Seamus Heaney’s death, the generosity and warmth of his rich poetic voice endures
Fran Brearton, The Conversation
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‘Dreaming of her hunger, I sob in my arms’: Read six new poems by Ashwani Kumar
Ashwani Kumar
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‘Kumaravyasa is only the scribe’: The Kannada Mahabharata from the Murty Classical Library
Kumaravyasa CN Ramachandran Narayan Hegde
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‘How Do Poets Write?’: A poem by Karuna Ezara Parikh
Karuna Ezara Parikh
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‘Everything Drowns, Except This Poem’: A poem by Srilata
K Srilata
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‘Yellow Today’: A poem by Imtiaz Dharker
Imtiaz Dharker
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‘Dear Big Gods’: A poem by Mona Arshi
Mona Arshi
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‘The Heart’s a Disobedient Girl’: A poem by Mandakranta Sen
Mandakranta Sen
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‘We Have Been Here Before’: A poem by Hamraaz
Hamraaz
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‘And, the Stars Are Not Sufficient’: A poem by Meena Kandasamy
Meena Kandasamy
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‘The Garden’s Earth Yawns’: A poem by Adil Jussawalla
Adil Jussawalla
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‘Groove’: A poem by Ranjit Hoskote
Ranjit Hoskote