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

As writers document the pandemic through poetry, here is a chance to understand this form

Rule number one: You don’t have to like it.

Andrew McMillan, The Conversation

· May 08, 2020 · 05:30 pm

When isolation is considered a virtue, poetry reveals the play of intimacy and distance

Three poems in Odia by Bishnu Mohapatra lend us new metaphors for survival in these times.

Aparna Uppaluri

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Laetitia Drahmani

· May 02, 2020 · 12:30 pm

A writer in Goa and an artist in Kerala responded jointly to their isolation with art and poetry

Art by Madhusudhanan, poetry by Sabitha Satchi.

Madhusudhanan

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Sabitha Sachi

· Apr 27, 2020 · 08:30 am

Can the body be a metaphor of protest? These poems by four women poets show us how

Poetry by Karthika Naïr, Priya Sarukkai Chabria, K Srilata, and Anupama Raju.

Karthika Nair

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Priya Sarukkai Chabria

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K Srilata

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Anupama Raju

· Apr 19, 2020 · 07:30 pm