poetry
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Poetry: How a worn, armless stone knight inspired different shades of love in Keats and Larkin
Richard Marggraf-Turley, The Conversation
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The first woman on the moon reached there in the 17th century – through a smash hit play
Sara Read and Catie Gill, The Conversation
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Meet the four women poets who inhabit the literature of Kashmir like no one else
Neerja Mattoo
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This debut collection of poetry maps a geography of anguish in its lines and images
Shikhandin
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Verses for a home foregone: Four poets on exile and being refugees
Manan Kapoor, Sahapedia
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The poetry of missing persons: K Srilata’s new book of poems explores the idea of ‘absent presences’
K Srilata
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Listen to Rahat Indori reciting the powerful poem that Mahua Moitra quoted in her Lok Sabha speech
Scroll Staff
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‘I saw how he sought to break the chains of caste’: Nirupama Dutt on translating Lal Singh Dil
Nirupama Dutt
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'Dear papa, I don't like you': On Fathers' Day, watch this poem explore the unsaid
Scroll Staff
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‘He pirated his own book’: Arvind Krishna Mehrotra on Arun Kolatkar’s bilingual poetry (and life)
Arvind Krishna Mehrotra
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Lab notes in verse: Science and poetry are more compatible than you think
Sam Illingworth, The Conversation
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How Erasmus Darwin’s poetry foretold his grandson Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution
Ed Simon, Aeon
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Disillusioned with America, did the poet Allen Ginsberg find an antidote to rationality in India?
Manan Kapoor, Sahapedia
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Thinking of starting a literary magazine? Here’s what you should know
Ribhu
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Arundhati Subramaniam’s book of poems offers up a world viewed with quiet wisdom and fresh insight
Aditi Rao
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AK Ramanujan’s diaries reveal the inner turmoil and meditative awareness of the man behind the icon
N Kalyan Raman
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How a book of poems written by Buddhist nuns over a 300-year period helps in understanding suffering
Aparna Sanyal
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Fafnir’s heart: A legend from Norse mythology inspires an anthology of poetry from across the world
Priya Sarukkai Chabria
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How the legendary Begum Akhtar influenced the life and poetry of Agha Shahid Ali
Manan Kapoor, Sahapedia
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Reading Gorakh Pandey, the people’s poet who rebelled against his feudal roots
Saudamini Deo