17/6/24
Following the open call for submissions in April 2024, we’re delighted to announce the official selection, which will be published in an anthology by Renard Press in July 2024. (The list is sorted by title – you can search this page with ctrl/cmd + ‘F’ to find a name).
- ‘(to make or keep separate)’ by Manjot Dhaliwal
- ‘A forest of unified violence’ by Anette Appaduray
- ‘A Sestina to Myself’ by Kathleen Wenaden
- ‘Asghari and the tree of destiny, 1933’ by Laila Sumpton
- ‘apple chutney’ by Jaweerya Mohammad
- ‘Begining of the end’ by Nawshin Flora
- ‘Body/border’ by Ilisha Thiru Purcell
- ‘Brief Essay on Intergenerational Trauma’ by Sneha Subramanian Kanta
- ‘Bright Thread’ by Moniza Alvi
- ‘Brown Girl Duplex, after Jericho Brown’ by Kari Pindoria
- ‘Chorizo from the old country’ by Selma Carvalho
- ‘dad/ drama-queen’ by Jayant Kashyap
- ‘Draw it on a Map’ by A.A.Malik
- ‘Eurydice’s wardrobe’ by Z. R. Ghani
- ‘Felice Beato Photographs the ‘Indian Mutiny’ by Ashok Bery
- ‘First Flush Darjeeling’ by Ansuya
- ‘Ghazal: Language of Loss’ by Shasta Hanif Ali
- ‘Great Grandmother, 1947’ by Anannya Uberoi
- ‘Half shapes of me’ by Anita Nahal
- ‘Home is the Third Space’ by Hana Ormara
- ‘Home.’ by Mev Akram
- ‘Homing’ by Devjani Bodepudi
- ‘How to answer inappropriate questions’ by Suchita Parikh-Mundul
- ‘India’s On the Moon’ by Ankita Saxena
- ‘Just before it burns’ by Anita Goveas
- ‘Longevity of a Superstition’ by Kinshuk Gupta
- ‘Man on the Northern Line’ by Naila Ali
- ‘Missing’ by Clare Ramsaran
- ‘mother / tongue’ by Madri Kalugala
- ‘Muṣallā*’ by Abhijeet
- ‘My parents come from a place that no longer exists’ by Rishika Williams
- ‘Power’ by Nikita Aashi Chadha
- ‘Romanticising My life as I Hang the Washing Out to Dry’ by Jay Mitra
- ‘Round 25’ by Humus
- ‘Shiva explains to Parvati why their son looks different’ by Vijaya Venkatesan
- ‘Spring in Copenhagen’ by Rishi Dastidar
- ‘Tea’ by Koushik Banerjea
- ‘the face in flight’ by Sav Altair Hamid
- ‘The Hat’ by Mediah Ahmed
- ‘The Unnamed Road’ by Jaspreet Mander
- ‘These things are complicated’ by Lavanya Arora
- ‘Things I Remember When I Am Alone: Yearning For Oman’ By Priyanka Sacheti
- ‘This Bride’ by Rupinder Kaur Waraich
- ‘Tholaintha Porudkal (Lost Things)’ by Tehnuka
- ‘To speak, without the cacophony of sounds’ by Emmett M
- ‘To the Men Because They Are Still Hitting Us’ by Suvechchha Saha
- ‘What is this Grief of Wanting More?’ by Rhiya Pau
- ‘White’ by Gita Baliga-Savel
- ‘Wind, blow on the grass’ by Mashiat Zahin
- ‘You carry separation with you’ by S S Haque
Other poems
We were only able to include less than 25% of the submitted poems in the anthology, which means there were plenty of brilliant poems that are not in the book. Below are some of these poems for you to enjoy online, which the poets have kindly given permission to be published here.
- ‘Brown Skin’ by Shaan Akbar Ali Patankar
- ‘Dear Mother Tongue’ by Snehal
- ‘First Love’ by Dr Tulika Jha
- ‘F train’ by Tejas Yadav
- ‘Goldilocks loves her gold locks & dadi’ by AminaB
- ‘Herstory’ by Noor Iman
- ‘Hope’ by Debarati Bhattacharyya
- ‘Into Blue’ by Mira Mookerjee
- ‘Masala Beans’ by Hernoor Kaur Grewal
- ‘Never Forgotten Love’ by noor
- ‘Open’ by Arun Kapur
- ‘Paradoxical Marriage’ by Sriramgokul Chinnasamy
- ‘Roots of Identity’ by Imogen Patel
- ‘The other woman’ by Dharshu
- ‘The Three of Us’ by Oshanthaka Cabraal
- ‘The Voyage’ by Tavinder Kaur New
- ‘Tumi kisu khoyleh, forishkaar bhabeh khoyoh’ by Akiba Azad
- ‘Twenty years down the lane’ by Srilekha Mitra
- ‘Years Later, While Buying Meat’ by Tuhin Bhowal
