‘We text, text, text, our significant words’: Poems for those in long-distance relationships

When being physically close together is impossible, thanks to the pandemic.

Kate North, The Conversation

· Feb 16, 2021 · 05:30 pm

How poetry can make us both laugh and think (providing added reasons to read it)

Humour in poems has the power to promote reflective thinking.

Christina Thatcher, The Conversation

· Feb 12, 2021 · 05:30 pm

Christmas conjunction of planets: Ten anthems for the solar system

On Monday, December 21, Jupiter and Saturn come together in the sky over Earth for the legendary ‘Christmas kiss’.

Abhay K

· Dec 21, 2020 · 05:30 pm

‘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