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The Bloodaxe Book of Modern Indian Poets by Jeet Thayil; with photographs by Madhu Kapparath is a work of literary fiction available to read on EtoBox.

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Jeet Thayil's definitive selection covers 55 years of Indian poetry in English. It is the first anthology to represent not just the major poets of the past half-century - the canonical writers who have dominated Indian poetry and publishing since the 1950s - but also the different kinds of poetry written by an extraordinary range of younger poets who live in many countries as well as in India. It is a groundbreaking global anthology of 70 poets writing in a common language responding to shared traditions, different cultures and contrasting lives in the changing modern world.Thayil's starting-point is Nissim Ezekiel, the first important modern Indian poet after Tagore, who published his first collection in London in 1952. Aiming for "verticality" rather than chronology, Thayil's anthology charts a poetry of astonishing volume and quality. It pays homage to major influences, including Ezekiel, Dom Moraes and Arun Kolatkar, who died within months of each other in 2004. It rediscovers forgotten figures such as Lawrence Bantleman and Gopal Honnalgere, and it serves as an introduction to the poets of the future.The book also shows that many Indian poets were mining the rich vein of 'chut

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Author

Jeet Thayil; with photographs by Madhu Kapparath

Publisher

Bloodaxe Books Ltd

Published

2008

Language

EN

ISBN

9781852248017

Category

work of literary fiction

Subjects

Poetry, Literary Fiction, Asian Poetry

Rating

4.38 / 5 (16 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14