A case for memorising poetry in the age of search engines, social media and smartphones

Done right, it illuminates the structure of a poem and, more important, enhances human connections.

Veronica Alfano, The Conversation

· Aug 21, 2019 · 05:30 pm

Poetry: How a worn, armless stone knight inspired different shades of love in Keats and Larkin

John Keats’s ‘La Belle Dame Sans Merci’ and Philip Larkin’s ‘An Arundel Tomb’ may share their muse – a little over a 100 years apart.

Richard Marggraf-Turley, The Conversation

· Jul 26, 2019 · 05:30 pm

Verses for a home foregone: Four poets on exile and being refugees

How the forced migrations in and around the Indian subcontinent in the 20th and 21st centuries have been depicted in poetry.

Manan Kapoor, Sahapedia

· Jun 30, 2019 · 05:30 pm

Lab notes in verse: Science and poetry are more compatible than you think

From Byron’s estranged daughter Ada Lovelace to chemist Sir Humphrey Davy, the pursuit of science and poetry have often overlapped.

Sam Illingworth, The Conversation

· Jun 09, 2019 · 12:30 pm

Imtiaz Dharker has refused to be Britain’s Poet Laureate. ‘The poems won,’ she said. She is right

A short journey through the poetry in the South Asian but global voice of Imtiaz Dharker.

Sohini Basak

· May 11, 2019 · 08:30 am

‘The Veiled Suite’: Rereading Agha Shahid Ali 10 years after his collected poems were published

The poet’s verses mourning Kashmir return hauntingly as news headlines.

Radhika Oberoi

· Mar 30, 2019 · 05:30 pm

Why we don’t need one World Poetry Day a year to savour the joys of poetry

Every time we read a poem, it gives us a new meaning.

Anupama Raju

· Mar 21, 2019 · 06:30 pm

‘How my debut poetry manuscript was edited to become a full-fledged book’

The journey from a collection of poems to a complete book ready for readers.

Urvashi Bahuguna

· Mar 17, 2019 · 09:02 am

How a poetic retelling of the Mahabharata warns us against the rhetoric of vengeance and sacrifice

Arun Kolatkar’s ‘Sapra Satra’ reminds us that once the fire of vengeance has been lit, it can never be put out.

Nachiket Joshi

· Mar 12, 2019 · 05:30 pm

A brief journey through India as seen by the French poetic imagination of the 19th century

From Stephane Mallarmé and Charles Baudelaire to Paul Verlaine, they all wrote about India.

Saudamini Deo

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Philippe Charlier

· Mar 03, 2019 · 08:30 am

What a poet learned from Mary Oliver (1935-2019), who was unabashedly in love with the world

Oliver’s legacy isn’t just her poetry but why she wrote it and how others responded to it.

Urvashi Bahuguna

· Feb 03, 2019 · 08:30 am

Almost entirely ignored by urban India, the farmer once held pride of place in literature and poetry

From Premchand to the Progressive Writers, from political poets to film lyricists, they all wrote about farmers once. Not anymore.

Rakhshanda Jalil

· Dec 01, 2018 · 07:00 am