Description
From Ghalib’s Delhi and Nissim Ezekiel’s Bombay to Agha Shahid Ali’s Srinagar and Kamala Das’s Calcutta, from Sarojini Naidu’s Hyderabad to Arundhathi Subramaniam’s Madras to Kynpham Sing Nongkynrih’s Shillong; The Penguin Book of Poems on the Indian City takes you on a spectacular poetic journey across thirty-seven cities in India.
This anthology contains 375 poems, those written in English and those translated from nearly twenty languages. From the classical voices of Valmiki and the Sangam poets to the Bhakti and Sufi strains of Surdas, Kabir and Amir Khusrau, and the early modern figures like Mir Taqi Mir, Narmad, Rudyard Kipling and Rabindranath Tagore, this collection offers an immersive lyrical exploration of India’s urban landscape.
About the Author
By day, BILAL MOIN is an economist trained at Yale and Oxford. By night, he is a writer, poet and photographer. His writing has appeared in Rattle, The Oxford Isis, Indian Literature, Himal Southasian and elsewhere. He was a finalist for the Jon Stallworthy Poetry Prize, and his first collection of poetry was published in 2018. He was born and raised in Bombay, or Mumbai, depending on your persuasion.
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