Poetry
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‘I have seen time / Gathering in a contained space’: Gulzar writes to Rumi, Pancham, and friends
Gulzar Sathya Saran
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‘What remains / are the poems, the songs / that mortality sings’: Griffin Poetry Prize winning poems
Durs Grünbein Karen Leeder
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Seagull Books publication ‘Psyche Running’ wins Griffin Poetry Prize for Durs Grünbein, Karen Leeder
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‘In steps, in leaps’: Meera Ganapathi’s new book of prose-poems about the joys of walking in a city
Meera Ganapathi
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‘The umbrellas are on a protest march’: Bishnu Mohapatra’s poems on rain for a desolate May
Sayandeb Chowdhury
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‘I am not scared / I am not alone’: A young girl and a temple elephant become friends
Ranjeeta Raam
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Twinkle, twinkle, little star: Cosmology and the composition of verse
John Drew
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‘I always remember the streets, the stone’: Two poets write about cities around the world
Jeet Thayil John Kinsella
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‘With Earth as My Witness’: Poetry as meditation on the profane and sacred, the human and the divine
Smitha Sehgal
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‘I am a house of wounds / All my rooms are filled with blood’: Poems recalling the horrors of war
K Satchidanandan
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‘We have no gift to set a statesman right’: Three poems by WB Yeats about the mindlessness of wars
WB Yeats
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‘Foreheads of men have bled where no wounds were’: A young soldier-poet denounces war
Wilfred Owen
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‘The sun is a lizard and the earth is an egg’: A new book of fables by Suniti Namjoshi
Suniti Namjoshi
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‘The world transfers / Man / Into its own / Resonance’: Five poems about humanity’s ‘zero hour’
Anu Majumdar
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Haibuns and haikus, ghazals and concrete poems: What to expect from this anthology of new poetry
Sukrita Paul Kumar Vinita Agrawal
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‘you touch my skin / a riot breaks out inside of me’: These poems bridge the self and nature
Devashish Makhija
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‘Autumn always returned / to our garden’: Poems about the (extra)ordinary in tradition and modernity
Ammar Aziz
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The world of Lalla: A journey into the heart of the 14th-century Kashmiri mystic poetess
Amir Suhail Wani
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‘Whenever I write a word / it lacks the meaning I intended’: An anthology of translated world poetry
Priya Sarukkai Chabria Fadwa Suleiman Marilyn Hacker Amit Dutta Ayswarya S Dutta Mangalesh Dabral Daisy Rockwell Kanhopatra Anjali Purohit Vitaly Pukhanov Philip Nikolayev
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Hindi poetry: An excerpt from ‘Mere Hissey Ki Shyaahi,’ by Ritu Gupta Garg
Ritu Gupta Garg