The Yearbook of Indian Poetry in English 2023

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.

Vinita Agrawal’s latest collection of poems Twilight Language won the Proverse Prize Hongkong 2021, the Rabindranath Tagore Literary Prize 2018, the Gayatri GaMarsh Memorial Award for Literary Excellence, USA, 2015. The author of five books of poetry, her work was shortlisted for the inaugural Deepankar Khiwani Memorial Prize 2021 and received a special mention in the Hawkers Prize 2019. Sukrita Paul Kumar is a multi-award-winning poet, scholar, critic, and author. 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 UK and South Asia, and the Guest Editor of Indian Literature, the journal of the Sahitya Akademi (Indian Academy of Letters).