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Inventory of a Locked Room
A short poem cataloguing what is kept, not what is meant, in a house nobody visits anymore.
Poetry
The magazine runs a live poetry series and prints poems beside the reviews, including several written alongside novels and story collections featured on this site. Send no more than three poems in one file, original or translated, and say from which language.
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The Driver Remembers Differently
A companion poem to a memoir, told from the back seat of a childhood no one else recalls the same way.
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Fourth Floor, No Lift
A companion poem to a Lakhani Chawl story, counted out in stairs rather than stanzas.
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What the Embassy Keeps
A poem written alongside a novel about visa bureaucracy, in the voice of the files themselves.
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Small Gods Do the Accounts
A poem in the voice of a fictional temple bookkeeper, the same figure who narrates a recent novel.
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Letter to a Demolished Cinema
One of the unsent letters referenced in a recent Bombay-set novel, published here on its own.
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The Second Wedding, Arithmetic
A light companion poem to a comic novel about remarriage, counted out like a guest list.
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Night Shift, Nocturne
A poem written between shifts, published to accompany a debut call-centre novel.
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The Uncharted Lane
A short poem on the three names a single Goan lane has carried across a century.
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What the Photographs Would Have Shown
A poem written during research for a memoir about a family habit of burning photographs after every death.
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A Field Note on the Common Mynah
One entry from a heartbreak collection organised like a birdwatcher's field guide.
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The Almirah Goes to Scrap
The closing movement of a verse novel, published here as a standalone poem.
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Loud Room, Stairwell Fugue
A poem written alongside a family-saga novel, set on the one staircase no one can storm off from.
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Small Country, Visa Office Aubade
A morning poem set in the same fictional consulate as a recent debut novel.
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Second-City Almanac
A poem drawn from research for an essay collection on India's tier-two literary cities.