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
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.
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