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I was scouring shelves, cabinets and cartons for my poetry books, and here is what I found. Not all of them, but most.
Which ones have you read?
Perhaps you can share your collection?
(The pile collapsed a few seconds after I took this picture.)

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The image is a photograph of a teetering stack of books of various thicknesses, their spines facing the lens. The Pocket Book of Ogden Nash Candy is Dandy, Ogden Nash Poems on the Underground Nine Horses, Billy Collins The Vintage Book of Contemporary Poetry, JD McClatchy (editor) फैज़, चुनी हुई शायरी crush, Annie Zaidi (illustrated by Gynelle Alves) Triage: Casualties of Love and Sex, Margaret Mascarenhas The Collected Poems, Vikram Seth Girls are Coming Out of the Woods, Tishani Doshi The Altar of the Only World, Sharanya Manivannan Ghalib in translation, OP Kejariwal The Golden Gate, Vikram Seth Monk on a Hill, Guru Tshering Ladakhi 50 Poets, 50 Poems, Priya Sarukkai Chabria (editor) [There were two volumes but the other one is with a friend. This was printed and circulated privately, and not available in shops.] A Reluctant Survivor, Sridala Swami My Sunset Marriage, Hoshang Merchant Until the Lions, Karthika Nair Sight May Strike You Blind, Sampurna Chattarji Women Who Wear Only Themselves, Arundhathi Subramaniam Love Without A Story, Arundhathi Subramaniam When God is a Traveller, Arundhathi Subramaniam Unmappable Moves, Sampurna Chattarji Frazil, Menka Shivdasani Collected Poems, Nissim Ezekiel Collected Poems, by Gieve Patel I'll Have It Here, by Jeet Thayil View from the Web, by Anju Makhija Over & Under Ground in Paris & Mumbai, Karthika Nair Sampurna Chattarji, (with illustrations by Roshni Vyam, Joelle Jolivet) The Penguin Book of Indian Poets, Jeet Thayil (editor)
October 4, 2025 at 5:04 PM