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Naveen Kishore’s poetry engages with grief in poetry with bravery, without blinking.

Robin S. Ngangom’s new collection of poems, 'My Invented Land', brings together old and new poetry, engaging with the violent politics of the Northeast and demands of prosody.

A reviewer must make themselves vulnerable if they really want to decode a book of poems.

Sukrita's new book, 'Vanishing Words', accommodates a multiplicity of voices and perspectives.

The 'Penguin Book of Indian Poets', edited by Jeet Thayil, must be judged for what it excludes as much as for what it includes.

Karuna Ezara Parikh’s 'where stories gather' shows the reader why she is so popular on social media.

Amit Chaudhuri’s new book combines biography, poetry and history in a genre-bending experiment.

A Sky Full of Bucket Lists Review: Japanese Flavours, Local Cuisine Shobhana Kumar’s book is a timely intervention to a growing subset of Indian poetry. Representative image. Photo: Yellow Mao/Flickr CC BY NC ND 2.0 Rabindranath Tagore recollected his first visit to Japan in 1916 in his book Japan Jatri, where he first introduced the haiku into Bengali. Translating the 17th-century Japanese poet Matsuo Basho, Tagore wrote: “The heart of the Japanese people does not sound like a water...

Joy Goswami: The Cosmopolitan From the Mofussil Sampurna Chattarji’s translation of Joy Goswami’s poetry is essential reading for anyone with even a casual interest in Indian poetry. Joy Goswamis poetry is like a broad, brown, silt-laden river, with its source in suburban or mofussil spaces such Ranaghat and its distributaries spreading into a global consciousness. Photo: Samuli Kangaslampi/Flickr (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0) Politics11 hours ago Bengali poet Joy Goswami has often recollected in...

The Women of South Asia Sing Their Defiance In this weekends Verse Affairs, an anthology of poems that embodies womens struggle to escape the maleness of language, and the world itself A protest against violence on women, in the aftermath of Hathras. Photo: PTI Women07/Mar/2021 In her poem ‘Tulips’, Sylvia Plath describes the emotional contours of a person recovering from an unknown operation in a sterile hospital room. Her husband, Ted Hughes, claimed she had written it while recovering fr...