Watch: Tony Walsh delivers a stirring poem at a packed vigil for Manchester victims

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· May 27, 2017 · 10:00 pm

A terrible beauty shines through this tea garden poet’s fierce verses on war, freedom, erotica

Nabina Das

· May 27, 2017 · 05:30 pm

How can Shakespeare’s ‘Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day’ be a love poem in blazing hot India?

Sumana Roy

· May 21, 2017 · 12:30 pm

Five poems of longing for the sizzling month of May

Rohini Kejriwal

· May 07, 2017 · 08:30 am

What makes novelist Anjum Hasan a writer of poems but not a poet?

Rohini Kejriwal

· May 06, 2017 · 08:30 am

Video: Marital rape is as much a crime as harassment at the workplace, as a 16-year-old reminds us

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· Apr 26, 2017 · 08:00 pm

Why are Alys’s letters to her husband Faiz Ahmed Faiz consigned to elite private readings?

Farha Noor

· Apr 24, 2017 · 08:30 am

Are the internet and social media an opportunity or a distraction for poets?

Manik Sharma

· Apr 23, 2017 · 07:00 am

Watch: Why not call a vagina a vagina, asks a 16-year-old in her slam poetry

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· Apr 21, 2017 · 05:00 pm

India’s first poetry biennale shows that such events need to be held more often

Maaz Bin Bilal

· Apr 16, 2017 · 08:30 am

‘I like the process of writing poetry to be play rather than work’: Arundhathi Subramaniam

Rohini Kejriwal

· Apr 16, 2017 · 07:00 am

India’s new poetry is suddenly both political (is there a choice?) and personal

Nabina Das

· Apr 09, 2017 · 08:30 am

‘Poetry is a place of truth. Not factual truth, but truth of expression and emotion.’

Rohini Kejriwal

· Apr 08, 2017 · 12:30 pm

Watch: Spoken-word poets and stand-up comedians have a powerful message on suicide

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· Apr 08, 2017 · 10:00 am

Hope and disillusionment. Or, reading Derek Walcott’s poetry at 18

Ahona Panda

· Apr 02, 2017 · 03:30 pm

If April is the cruellest month, here are five poems to take you back home

Rohini Kejriwal

· Apr 02, 2017 · 08:30 am

Watch: "If politicians can talk of raping dead women of a particular faith, my poem is far too soft"

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· Mar 24, 2017 · 08:00 pm

Watch: What is poetry, exactly? Is an answer even possible?

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· Mar 22, 2017 · 08:00 pm

‘The day, with all its pain ahead, is yours’: Remembering Derek Walcott (1930-2017)

Brinda Bose

· Mar 19, 2017 · 08:30 am

The poem that Faiz could have written for Delhi’s marching students

Tahseen Alam Parvati Sharma

· Mar 12, 2017 · 08:30 am