poetry
-
‘Substitute this betrayal with yet another’: Five poems on grief and memories by Salma
Salma
-
‘Advertisements hide my face’: Nine poems by the Bengali poet Shankha Ghosh (1932-2021)
Shankha Ghosh
-
Ranjit Hoskote’s new book ‘Hunchprose’ offers a nourishing needlework of finely wrought poetry
Sarabjeet Garcha
-
How are sexuality, poetry and spirituality connected? Poet Hoshang Merchant joins the dots
Hoshang Merchant
-
Greed versus balance: Where Amitav Ghosh’s re-creation of Sundarban legends in verse takes us
Shuktara Lal
-
‘Should I first read to them the news or the poems’: Five poems by Kunwar Narain
Kunwar Narain
-
‘Why do you shed tears, Malanna? Rise like a sword, Madiganna!’: Gaddar’s anthems for the revolution
Gaddar
-
Why controversies around cultural appropriation and identity politics should not end translations
Mridula Nath Chakraborty, The Conversation
-
A galaxy of underground poets of Bengal emerge in this book as truth-tellers and myth-busters
Parthapratim Dasgupta
-
‘The irony of desire in boxes’: Six poems to remind us of life (and death) on Zoom during Covid-19
Saumya R Kedia
-
Why we need poet John Keats’s concept of suspending judgment in today’s polarised world
Richard Gunderman, The Conversation
-
A ‘new’ poetry find has left lovers of Sappho thrilled, but its backstory may have been fabricated
C Michael Sampson, The Conversation
-
How poetry can make us both laugh and think (providing added reasons to read it)
Christina Thatcher, The Conversation
-
Poet Amanda Gorman’s riff on love as legacy points to youth’s power to shape future generations
Heather Lawford, The Conversation Heather L Ramey, The Conversation Jessica Riddell, The Conversation
-
‘The Great Bengali Poetry Underground’: An anthology that dives beneath the calm surface
Rajat Chaudhuri
-
‘The Mappila Verses’: Where do we go if our names are not in the list?
Ajmal Khan AT
-
Watch: Hindi poetry performance evaluates the ‘state of our democracy’ based on the events of 2020
Scroll Staff
-
Watch: Amanda Gorman explains how the US Capitol siege inspired her Inauguration Day poem
Scroll Staff
-
‘The Hidden Garden’: This book examines Mir Taqi Mir’s life through his incomparable poetry
Gopi Chand Narang
-
On late actor Irrfan’s birth anniversary, listen to his recitation of Anuradha Gakhar’s poem ‘Kammo
Scroll Staff