Poetry at Sangam
Poetry at Sangam showcases poetry in English and translations as well as essays on poetics and news of new releases.
Volume XI | Issue 2 We announce with regret that the current June 2023 issue of Poetry at Sangam will be the journal’s last issue. We are deeply grateful to the guest editors, poets and translators who contributed to the journal during … Continue reading
Volume XI | Issue 1 Priya Sarukkai Chabria, Founding Editor Editor’s Note Mrinalini Harchandrai and I wish you a very good 2023! In this issue I go with requests by some of the Indian contributors to the international anthology Divining … Continue reading
Volume X | Issue 6 Mrinalini Harchandrai, Deputy Editor Editor’s Note One of India’s foremost Sanskrit scholar-translators, Mani Rao’s latest release, Saundarya Laharī, translated as ‘waves of beauty’, is a paen to Shakti, the Divine Feminine. The text’s author credit … Continue reading
Volume X | Issue 5 Priya Sarukkai Chabria, Founding Editor Though I had appreciated Akhil Katyal’s work earlier, I first heard him read in person this January at the writer’s residency, Sangam House, as the Vijay Nambisan Poetry Fellow, to … Continue reading
Volume X | Issue 5 Mrinalini Harchandrai, Deputy Editor Editor’s Note This year is delightedly flagged by Indian Anglophone poets as the 70th anniversary of late Padma Shri Nissim Ezekiel’s first book of poetry, A Time To Change and Other … Continue reading
Volume IX | Issue 4 Mrinalini Harchandrai, Deputy Editor As our marble-blue home does its heliocentric revolution, we choose to mark time with poetry. Poetry at Sangam shifts into its ninth year this 2022; a feat in tenacity and interstitial-deep … Continue reading
Volume IX | Issue 3 Editor’s Note Jean Clottes, possibly the world’s foremost authority on cave art, disagrees with the nomenclature we have given our species, Homo sapiens or ‘wise ones’. We don’t know much, he insists. Instead, he and … Continue reading
Volume IX | Issue 2 I am delighted —and in no small measure – relieved to announce that the marvellous poet Mrinalini Harchandrai has joined Poetry at Sangam as Deputy Editor. The fine changes you notice in this issue are … Continue reading
Volume IX | Issue 1 We are a trifle late. But for good reason. Many of us rue the lack of communication with fellow poets across India’s western border. We complain about the difficulty in ordering books from Pakistan. About … Continue reading
Volume VIII | Issue 5 Words to clean the airIn early 2013, Arshia Sattar, founder of Sangam House, invited me to curate a poetry section for them as an affiliated but independent journal. I accepted, with a sense of joy. … Continue reading
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