‘How many more days this way, democracy?’: Five poems of lamentation and love from Assam

Politics and violence, language and longing, feature in this selection curated by Urvashi Bahuguna.

Urvashi Bahuguna

· Nov 15, 2020 · 12:30 pm

Poet Hoshang Merchant reads and annotates academic Brinda Bose’s collection of Calcutta poems

How does a poet read poetry?

Hoshang Merchant

· Sep 18, 2020 · 05:30 pm

‘Breathing. One does it through masks these days. Unless someone kneels on one’s neck’

Three poems for the age of the pandemic, by Dilip M Menon.

Dilip M Menon

· Aug 28, 2020 · 05:30 pm

‘How long does it take a hand of my country to reach a hungry mouth?’ Six poems by Kedarnath Singh

Poems that seem to speak even more acutely to India in 2020, translated from the Hindi by Trisha Gupta.

Kedarnath Singh

· Aug 21, 2020 · 05:30 pm

Kalidasa was an early practitioner of ecopoetry, a genre that the world is waking up to now

The poet-dramatist’s genius brought the ecological and the sensual together.

Abhay K

· Jul 19, 2020 · 12:30 pm

‘Hand on the placard, fist around the stone’: Five poems by Ranjit Hoskote viewing a ‘nation’s fate’

‘Sing, you tell yourself.’

Ranjit Hoskote

· Jul 03, 2020 · 05:30 pm

Celebrating Kishwar Naheed and eight decades of poetry and rebellion

The celebrated Urdu poet has turned 80 recently.

Naazir Mahmood, Dawn.com

· Jun 30, 2020 · 05:30 pm

‘We must talk remembering love’: Six poems from Priya Sarukkai Chabria’s new book of poetry

In ‘Calling Over Water’, the poems appear in three distinct segments.

Priya Sarukkai Chabria

· Jun 08, 2020 · 05:30 pm

Six poems that offer a virtual journey through Latin America in the age of the lockdown

An excerpt from ‘A-Z, The Alphabets of Latin America’, a collection of 108 poems by poet-diplomat Abhay K.

Abhay K

· May 29, 2020 · 05:30 pm

‘Nothing imagined is excessive’: Eleven poems for (and from) a world gripped by a pandemic

Poems by Perundevi, translated from the Tamil by N Kalyan Raman

Perundevi

· May 20, 2020 · 05:30 pm

‘The world in my solitary veins’: Three poems of air, water, and earth when locked down without them

A three-segment poem by Nabina Das.

Nabina Das

· May 14, 2020 · 05:30 pm

‘Jobless migrants arrive in the deserted city...With them the flamingos’: Five lockdown poems

Verse by Ashwani Kumar.

Ashwani Kumar

· May 13, 2020 · 08:30 am