Yearbook Indian Poetry in English 2024-2025

The Yearbook of Indian Poetry in English is a series of anthologies published every year, of English poems written by Indian poets and the Indian diaspora. The series is founded jointly by Sukrita Paul Kumar and Vinita Agrawal.

The inaugural issue was published in June 2021. The aim of the series is to present quality poems in English published in India and abroad. It is hoped that the exercise of bringing out such anthologies will eventually prove to be a fertile ground for establishing the aesthetics of Indian poetry in English. In the context of instabilities and uncertainties experienced acutely in contemporary life, it is not surprising that many poems in the Yearbook emerge creatively from a special focus on home, house, identity, roots and indeed the question of language which is also deeply linked with the idea of homing.

SUKRITA PAUL KUMAR is a poet, scholar, critic, and author who has won multiple prizes for her work, most recently the Rabindranath Tagore Literary Prize 2023. A former Fellow of the Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla, and holder of the Aruna Asaf Ali Chair at Delhi University, she is series co-editor of the “Writer in Context” series published by Routledge, and the Guest Editor of Indian Literature, the journal of the Sahitya Akademi (Indian Academy of Letters).

VINITA AGRAWAL has authored five books of poetry, and won the Proverse prize, the Rabindranath Tagore Literary Prize and the Gayatri GaMarsh Memorial Award for Literary Excellence, USA. She is on the Advisory Board of the Tagore Literary Prize, Co-chair for the Global Council for Excellence for Environment and Sustainability, and one of the twenty poets to be featured in a Taiwanese documentary on Asian poets, Deepest Uprising..