Poetry
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‘My toes pirouette on the waves’: A new book of poems blurs the boundaries of place and time
Moumita Alam
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‘The women cower / Hide like roaches’: Poems on living and working as a woman in a violent world
Mohua Chinappa
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‘Nobody’s citizens and nobody’s slaves’: Meena Kandasamy’s poetry of resistance and solidarity
Meena Kandasamy
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Watch: Poet Amanda Gorman recites her poem, cellist Jan Vogler plays Bach’s ‘Prelude’
Scroll Staff
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The politics of poetics: How young poets are challenging draconian laws with their writings
Indrajit Roy
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‘There is an unknown darkness brushing by’: These poems examine the nature of memory
S Rupsha Mitra
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‘To affirm a national literature’: Why three editors have created an anthology of Sri Lankan poetry
Sayari Debnath
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Some of the Renaissance’s most romantic love poems weren’t for lovers
Shannon McHugh, The Conversation
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The nature of the poetic: A hesitant tango between the erstwhile and the unfolding of the immediate
Naveen Kishore
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‘A form of expression for my grief, criticism, and anger’: Why Tamil poet Salma writes poetry
Salma K Srilata Shobhana Kumar Chandana Dutta
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Instapoetry is successful and there’s nothing wrong with that
Rafael Mendes Silva, The Conversation
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Arundhati Subramaniam wins the 2024 Mahakavi Kanhaiyalal Sethia Poetry Award
Scroll Staff
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‘Somehow, I’ve made it to the last paragraph’: Poet-novelist Anupama Raju has a new book of poetry
Anupama Raju
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Poetry picks: Read Ishrat Afreen’s feminist Urdu poetry in translation
Ishrat Afreen Hitesh Gupta Aadil
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‘The White Shirts of Summer’: Mamang Dai writes about small furies, big anguishes, and togetherness
Kartik Chauhan
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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