Poetry at Sangam
Poetry at Sangam showcases poetry in English and translations as well as essays on poetics and news of new releases.
Mrinalini Harchandrai’s poetry has been longlisted for the erbacce-prize 2022, was a finalist for the Quarterly West Poetry Prize 2021 and Stephen A. DiBiase Poetry Prize 2019, and received an Honourable Mention for the CID Pearlman Performance Project 2021. Her short fiction has been longlisted for the Commonwealth Short Story Prize 2018 and shortlisted for Columbia Journal Spring 2020 Contest. Her novel, longlisted for the McKitterick Prize 2021 and selected as Notable Entry for the Disquiet International Literary Prize 2019, is forthcoming with Bloomsbury in 2023. In 2021, she joined as Deputy Editor at Poetry at Sangam.
For me writing isn’t an emotional choice as much as it is a vein in my hand that needs bloodletting from time to time. I guess you could call it an action for wellbeing. I find that poetry is a crucible within which connections between inconsonant things can be explored. A sandpit where play with metaphor and triple entendre is liberating vigour.
It’s hard to say where the craft comes from. I feel like my fingertips are just the vehicle for the words to find their own grooves on the page, and they often surprise me with their own talents for sensibility.
I hope that the reader can find it in themself to go beyond viewing the poems here literally since the intention is for the meanings to layer tangentially and expand beyond the letterscape, with the aim to pierce through your rational structures and touch the core of your intuition.
This site is designed and maintained by GONECASE