meet the poet
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How an anonymous poetry page on Instagram is bringing hope to political activism
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‘The indulgence of examining my own psyche using words seems so narcissistic’: Poet Prerna Gill
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‘Poetry gives me the chance to confess even when I’m not in the act of confession’: Poet Kiran Bhat
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‘A critical reading of the Ramayana opened me up to its riches’: Poet Vivek Narayanan
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‘My kind of ideas are practical ideas. There is nothing ideological about them’: Poet Vijay Seshadri
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‘Failure is an opportunity. Failure is art. Failure is human’: Poet Raena Shirali
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‘The poetic and the political has to go together’: Akhil Katyal on reading and writing poetry
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Meet Rajiv Mohabir, the Guyanese poet of Indian origin who writes to remind himself that he is alive
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‘It’s how they roll on your tongue that matters, not how they sit on the page’: Poet Mani Rao
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Kashmir, Pakistan, Islam: How poet Fatimah Asghar’s different diasporas inform her work
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‘I believe in being the fringe. It helps keep my poetry alive’: How Naran is redefining Tamil poetry
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Inspiring poet or scripted performer? Rupi Kaur refuses to be labeled as one or the other
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‘Only political stupidities or atrocities excite me to write verse now’: Keki N Daruwalla
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‘What is it about heterosexual love that can make it incompatible with a truly feminist life?’
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‘At 64 I’m beginning to wonder whether I have any more poems left in me’: Manohar Shetty
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‘Poetry has always been a compulsion through my life’: Bina Sarkar Ellias
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‘When images and cadences come the right way, it’s part relief, part celebration’: Ranjit Hoskote
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Why birdwatching and writing poetry are strikingly similar for this poet
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What can a poet have to say about female-identified and the feminised body in cinema? A lot
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‘Poets are literary photographers, historians, witnesses. They are documenting moments.’
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‘Of course I feel exposed. A new book means drawing attention to yourself’: Poet Tishani Doshi
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How misogyny and rejections shape this poet’s approach to her art (and to her audience)
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Meet Rajiv Mohabir, the Guyanese poet of Indian origin who writes to remind himself that he is alive
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How does a poet turn Tintin and Snowy (and beetroot) into clever, searing verse?
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‘I have written standing up in buses, on the fourth seat of a Mumbai local’: Jerry Pinto
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‘A poem is a conversation I hope to have with a reader’: Annie Zaidi
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Kaifi Azmi’s poems, in his own voice
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‘I like the process of writing poetry to be play rather than work’: Arundhathi Subramaniam
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‘Poetry is a place of truth. Not factual truth, but truth of expression and emotion.’
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Who is ‘Hindustani Musalman’, the man behind social media’s favourite poem?
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‘The role of the poet today is to be a shape-shifter’: Anne Waldman
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‘The tiger, the leopard, the elephant are all sacred. What’s happening to them?’: Poet Ruth Padel
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Vidrohi: The rebel poet of JNU who lived on the campus and died on it
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Poetry makes nothing happen in India: Jeet Thayil