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.

The 2024 Yearbook (published in 2025) has a pioneering survey of the year’s Indian poetry in English, by Basudhara Roy, as well as  work by the following poets, some of whom are among the most well-known, and some of whom make a debut appearance here:

A.J. Thomas

Abhijit Sarmah

Aditi Bhattacharjee

Aekta Khubchandani

Afsar Mohammad

Aftab Yusuf Shaikh

Ajanta Paul

Alka Balain

Amit Shankar Saha

Amlanjyoti Goswami

Anant Mohan

Anindita Kar

Anita Nahal

Anju Kishore

Ankush Banerjee

Anu Majumdar

Aparna Chivukula

Arjun Rajendran

Arti Jain

Asijit Dutta

Athira Unni

Atreyee Majumder

Barnali Ray Shukla

Basudhara Roy

Beena E.S.

Bhaswati Ghosh

Bilal Moin

Bina Sarkar Ellias

Boudhayan Mukherjee

Brindha Vinodh

Brishti Roy

Christina Daniels

Debasish Mishra

Debmalya Bandyopadhyay

Debolina Dey

Devashish Makhija

Dibyajyoti Sarma

Durga Prasad Panda

Gautam Vegda

Gayatri Lakhiani Chawla

Gobinda Biswas

Gopal Lahiri

Gopikrishnan Kottoor

Huzaifa Pandit

Indu Parvathi

Jahnavi Gogoi

Jaydeep Sarangi

Jennifer Robertson

Jinju S.

Jyotish Chalil Gopinathan

Kabir Deb

Kala Ramesh

Kamalakar Bhat

Kashiana Singh

Kavita Ezekiel Mendonca

Kavita Ratna

Kinjal Sethia

Kris Kaila

Kynpham Sing Nongkynrih

Lakshmi Kannan

Lopamudra Basu

M. J. Neela

Maaz Bin Bilal

Mandakini Bhattacherya

Mani Rao

Meena Kandasamy

Megha Sood

Mohua Chinappa

Neha Bansal

Pallavi Narayan

Pooja Garg

Pramila Venkateswaran

Prathibha Nandakumar

Preeti Vangani

Priya Narayanan

Priyanka Sancheti

R Suresh Babu

Rahana K. Ismail

Rajiv Mohabir

Ranjit Hoskote

Richa Sharma

Ronita Chattopadhyay

Rupa Anand

Sambhu R.

Sampurna Chattarji

Sandeep Kumar Mishra

Sandip Chauhan

Sangeeta Sharma

Sangita Kalarickal

Sanjeev Sethi

Saraswati Nagpal

Satya Dash

Sekhar Banerjee

Shalim M. Hussain

Shanta Acharya

Sheena Laxmi

Shibani Phukan

Shikha Malaviya

Shikha Sahwney Lamba

Shikhandin

Shilpa Dikshit Thapliyal

Shoba Narayan

Shripad Sinnakaar

Sivakami Velliangiri

Sneha Roy

Snehal Vadher

Soni Somarajan

Suchi Govindarajan

Suchita Parikh-Mundul

Sudeep Sen

Sulekha Sarkar

Sunayna Pal

Sunil Sharma

Susmita Bhattacharya

Sutanuka Ghosh Roy

Tansy Troy

Teji Sethi

Tishani Doshi

Uma Gowrishankar

Unmana

Vidya Shankar

Vinay Sharma

Vivek Sharma

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THE EDITORS:

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.