Poems

As poetry charts a pop culture comeback, a look at how rhyme, rhythm and verse help us express emotion

Aside from films or TV series about poets, such as Dickinson or Paterson, poetry makes a cameo in some of our most iconic films, where it is said to represent or intensify a range of emotions.

The Delhi Starter Pack: The Triumvirate

Three things in Delhi shaped me, the very three things no one can escape: The school of thought, the travel and the houses I have lived in. I call it my Delhi starter pack, my triumvirate | Poetry by Jhinuk Sen

K Srilata’s new book of poems is a beautiful blend of un-belonging, longing, living and loving

The poems in K Srilata’s The Unmistakable Presence of Absent Humans, written over the last four or five years though she had begun work on some even earlier, come across as quite intimate, almost autobiographical in nature

Urvashi Bahuguna’s debut poetry collection Terrarium is delicately crafted and rich in detail

Urvashi Bahuguna’s poetry collection Terrarium from The (Great) Indian Poetry Collective is a beautiful little book, with a deliciously delicate cover.

Urvashi Bahuguna on her poetry collection Terrarium, growing up in Goa, finding her way back to writing

Urvashi Bahuguna’s debut poetry manuscript Terrarium won The Great Indian Poetry Collective’s Emerging Writer’s Prize.

Satyajit Sarna’s debut poetry collection, The Profane, is a meditation on death, dissent and our time on earth

The Profane is Delhi-based Satyajit Sarna’s first collection of poetry and has “poems of heartbreak and disillusion, of loneliness and mortality, but also of passion for life on earth, in all its mud and glory”.

The First Summer After You, And Other Poems

This collection of five poems deals with the themes of beginnings or endings in some way. The featured poets include Urvashi Bahuguna, Manik Sharma, Mihir Vatsa, Rohini Kejriwal and Maya Palit.

In Maharashtra's Shirgaon village, a 'farmer poet' defies stereotypes, seeks freedom through her words

Suvarna Maskar's first poem was published within a few months in 2008 in a Marathi daily Pudhari.

Two Full Moons review: Vinita Agrawal's intimate new book is a nourishing mix of imagistic, surreal poems

Vinita Agrawal’s fourth book of poems, Two Full Moons is a constellation of moments that are hauntingly visceral one second and deeply intimate in the very next.

Then There Were No Witnesses: Ahilan’s poetry bears powerful testimony to Sri Lankan civil war

Almost through the thirty years of the civil war, Ahilan wrote poetry that now serves as witnesses to the various phases of war and its aftermath.