‘They should have thought better of messing with a poet’: Faiz Ahmed Faiz’s grandson and biographer

‘It has always been understood that poets are in touch with something not visible or understandable to ordinary men and women.’

Ali Madeeh Hashmi

· Jan 13, 2020 · 07:30 am

‘Hum Dekhenge’: Singer and writer Ali Sethi explains how to read (and interpret) Faiz’s poem

Sethi urges that the poem be read on literary terms, with an understanding of context, technique and allusions.

Ali Sethi

· Jan 09, 2020 · 08:30 am

‘But now these cruel times have almost run their course’: Eight poems for 2020 by Faiz Ahmed Faiz

Translations of the revolutionary poet’s works by Mustansir Dalvi.

Faiz Ahmed Faiz

· Jan 05, 2020 · 07:30 am

Why French poet Charles Baudelaire was the godfather of modern day Goths

He often dressed in black, dyed his hair green, and rebelled against the conformist, bourgeois world. Sounds familiar?

Nick Freeman, The Conversation

· Nov 01, 2019 · 05:30 pm

‘Each gulp is a dagger’: Five poets respond to the altered reality of Kashmir after the lockdown

Poet Shikha Malaviya curates a selection of poetry for Kashmir.

Shikha Malaviya

· Oct 20, 2019 · 08:30 am

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