“These poems love. Prophesize. Return us to our beginnings. To days that we want to remember. Or forget. But don’t. Thus in our sister’s memory, we survive in the luxury of dying. The courage of loving. The re-imagining of our souls…
Interviewed by Jagari Mukherjee Sahana Mukherjee is a Charles Wallace fellow at the University of Edinburgh in Creative Writing (2017). She is always trying to understand the language of silence. August Ache is her debut book of poems. 1. There is…
Jen Campbell’s full-length poetry collection is out from Bloodaxe Books, UK. It is titled The Girl Aquarium. The title poem gave me chills. It is about an aquarium full of girls who aren’t ‘normal’ and people visit them like one…
Thanks to Copper Canyon Press for advance review copy. Review by Jagari Mukherjee In Shakespeare’s problem play, Troilus and Cressida, the eponymous heroine remarks, “For to be wise, and love/ Exceeds man’s might; that dwells with gods above.” Keith Wilson’s…
Thanks to Copper Canyon Press for advance review copy. Review by Linda Ashok In the white US and saffron India, there isn’t a sensible human being who isn’t aware of the violent shadow of discrimination. From here, if we paraglide…
Thanks to Copper Canyon Press for advance review copy. Deborah’s poems are poems born out of necessity, poems that beget an intuitive response from us, poems to whose familiarity we nod: the fear and anxiety of living in today’s world….
Interviewed by Jagari Mukherjee Vinita Agrawal’s recent book, “Two Full Moons” published by Bombaykala Books received a handsome reception by poets across the country and abroad. We quote Preeti Vangani who reviewed her book on Firstpost.com; “Like Hughes, for Agrawal,…
Before moving to California, I spent most of my life in the overcrowded, fast-paced, industrial city of Mumbai. While we lived not far from a small public garden, the closest I ever got to witnessing nature was by observing our…
Interviewed by Linda Ashok In the words of Jericho Brown, Elizabeth Cohen’s Patron Saint of Cauliflower is a matter of fact and practical: “I am preparing for the end of the world.” Cohen takes the most ordinary of images and…
This is perhaps one of the most exciting interviews of our time and we are happy to share this with you. Two poets, across time-zones, discuss opportunities of wider poetic representation of Asian poets in Asia with particular reference to…