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ISBN | 9789389195644 |
Format | HardBound |
Language | English |
Year of Publication | 2019 |
Bib. Info | 255p.; |
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Containing nearly 70 poets is a landmark new anthology that maps the contemporary poetry scene in India and the broader Indian diaspora. Nearly a hundred years have passed since E V Rieus India in Song: Eastern Themes in English Verse by British and Indian Poets (Oxford University Press, 1920), one of the earliest known attempts to present Indian poetry in English in serious anthology form. Since then many more anthologies have appeared (including significant ones from Macmillan, Orient Longman, Oxford, Rupa, Penguin and HarperCollins), and through them one can see and map the progression of Indian poets their trajectory, outlook, approach, innovation, language and a varied evolving style. In the last two decades, Indian poetry in the English language has developed by leaps and bounds, following almost an algorithmic graph. New poets have emerged, employing diverse styles of writing, introducing new literary tropes, and extending the scope of the poetic muse. What marks them is their confidence they are unafraid and outwardly political; they engage head-on with gender issues, aspects of intolerance, inequality; and their approach to language is free, open and unabashed.