Indian English poetry is the oldest form of
Indian English literature
Indian English literature (IEL), also referred to as Indian Writing in English (IWE), is the body of work by writers in India who write in the English language but whose native or co-native language could be one of the numerous languages of India. ...
. Indian poets writing in English have succeeded to nativize or indianize English in order to reveal typical Indian situations.
Henry Louis Vivian Derozio
Henry Louis Vivian Derozio (18 April 1809 – 26 December 1831) was an Indian poet and assistant headmaster of Hindu College, Kolkata. He was a radical thinker of his time and one of the first Indian educators to disseminate Western learning a ...
is considered the first poet in the lineage of Indian English poetry followed by
Rabindranath Tagore
Rabindranath Tagore (; bn, রবীন্দ্রনাথ ঠাকুর; 7 May 1861 – 7 August 1941) was a Bengali polymath who worked as a poet, writer, playwright, composer, philosopher, social reformer and painter. He resh ...
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Sri Aurobindo
Sri Aurobindo (born Aurobindo Ghose; 15 August 1872 – 5 December 1950) was an Indian philosopher, yogi, maharishi, poet, and Indian nationalist. He was also a journalist, editing newspapers such as ''Vande Mataram''. He joined the ...
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Sarojini Naidu
Sarojini Naidu (''née'' Chattopadhyay; 13 February 1879 – 2 March 1949) was an Indian political activist, feminist and poet. A proponent of civil rights, women's emancipation, and anti-imperialistic ideas, she was an important person in Indi ...
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Michael Madhusudan Dutt
Michael Madhusudan Dutt ((Bengali: মাইকেল মধুসূদন দত্ত); (25 January 1824 – 29 June 1873) was a Bengali poet and playwright. He is considered one of the pioneers of Bengali literature.
Early life
Dutt ...
, and
Toru Dutt
Toru Dutt ( bn, তরু দত্ত; 4 March 1856 – 30 August 1877) was an Indian Bengali translator and poet from British India, who wrote in English and French. She is among the founding figures of Indo-Anglian literature, alongside Henry ...
, among others.
History
Nissim Ezekiel
Nissim Ezekiel (16 December 1924 – 9 January 2004) was an Indian Jewish poet, actor, playwright, editor and art critic. He was a foundational figure in postcolonial India's literary history, specifically for Indian Poetry in English.
He ...
is considered to be a pioneering figure in modern Indian English Poetry.His first book, ''A Time to Change'', was published in 1952. The significant poets of the post-Derozio and pre-Ezekiel times are
Toru Dutt
Toru Dutt ( bn, তরু দত্ত; 4 March 1856 – 30 August 1877) was an Indian Bengali translator and poet from British India, who wrote in English and French. She is among the founding figures of Indo-Anglian literature, alongside Henry ...
,
Michael Madhusudan Dutt
Michael Madhusudan Dutt ((Bengali: মাইকেল মধুসূদন দত্ত); (25 January 1824 – 29 June 1873) was a Bengali poet and playwright. He is considered one of the pioneers of Bengali literature.
Early life
Dutt ...
,
Sarojini Naidu
Sarojini Naidu (''née'' Chattopadhyay; 13 February 1879 – 2 March 1949) was an Indian political activist, feminist and poet. A proponent of civil rights, women's emancipation, and anti-imperialistic ideas, she was an important person in Indi ...
,
Sri Aurobindo
Sri Aurobindo (born Aurobindo Ghose; 15 August 1872 – 5 December 1950) was an Indian philosopher, yogi, maharishi, poet, and Indian nationalist. He was also a journalist, editing newspapers such as ''Vande Mataram''. He joined the ...
and
Rabindranath Tagore
Rabindranath Tagore (; bn, রবীন্দ্রনাথ ঠাকুর; 7 May 1861 – 7 August 1941) was a Bengali polymath who worked as a poet, writer, playwright, composer, philosopher, social reformer and painter. He resh ...
. Some of the notable poets of Ezekiel's time are
A. K. Ramanujan
Attipate Krishnaswami Ramanujan (16 March 1929 – 13 July 1993) was an Indian poet and scholar of Indian literature and Linguistics. Ramanujan was also a professor of Linguistics at University of Chicago.
Ramanujan was a poet, scholar, ...
,
R. Parthasarathy
Rajagopal.Parthasarathy (born 1934) is an Indian poet, translator, critic, and editor.
Early life and education
Rajagopal Parthasarathy was born on 20 August 1934 in Tirupparaiturai near Tiruchchirappalli. He was educated at Don Bosco High Sc ...
,
Gieve Patel
Gieve Patel (born 18 August 1940) is an Indian poet, playwright, painter, as well as a physician. He belongs to a group of writers who have subscribed themselves to the ''Green Movement'' which is involved in an effort to protect the environmen ...
,
Jayant Mahapatra,
Dom Moraes
Dominic Francis Moraes (19 July 1938 – 2 June 2004) was an Indian writer and poet who published nearly 30 books in English. He is widely seen as a foundational figure in Indian English literature. His poems are a meaningful and substantial c ...
,
Kamala Das
Kamala Surayya (born Kamala; 31 March 1934 – 31 May 2009), popularly known by her one-time pen name Madhavikutty and married name Kamala Das, was an Indian poet in English as well as an author in Malayalam from Kerala, India. Her popularity ...
,
Keki N. Daruwalla, Arvind Krishna Mehrotra,
Shiv K. Kumar,
Arun Kolatkar
Arun Balkrishna Kolatkar ( Marathi: अरुण बालकृष्ण कोलटकर) (1 November 1932 – 25 September 2004) was an Indian poet who wrote in both Marathi and English. His poems found humour in everyday matters. Kolatkar ...
and
Dilip Chitre
Dilip Purushottam Chitre (17 September 1938 – 10 December 2009) was one of the foremost Indian poets and critics to emerge in the post Independence India. Apart from being a notable bilingual writer, writing in Marathi language, Marathi and En ...
. Rabindranath Tagore wrote primarily in Bengali and created a small body of work (mainly prose) in English and was responsible for the translations of his own work into English.
Poets
Other notable 20th century poets of English poetry in India include
Eunice De Souza,
Gieve Patel
Gieve Patel (born 18 August 1940) is an Indian poet, playwright, painter, as well as a physician. He belongs to a group of writers who have subscribed themselves to the ''Green Movement'' which is involved in an effort to protect the environmen ...
,
Kersy Katrak and
P. Lal
Purushottama Lal (28 August 1929 – 3 November 2010), commonly known as P. Lal, was an Indian poet, essayist, translator, professor and publisher. He was the founder of publishing firm Writers Workshop in Calcutta, established in 1958.
Life a ...
among others. The younger generation of poets writing in English are
Abhay K
Abhay Kumar en Name Abhay K.(born 1980) is an Indian poet-diplomat and currently serves as the Deputy Director General of Indian Council of Cultural Relations (ICCR), New Delhi. He served as India's 21st Ambassador to Madagascar and Comoros fr ...
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Adil Jussawalla
Adil Jehangir Jussawalla (born 8 April 1940, Mumbai) is an Indian poet, magazine editor and translator. He has written two books of poetry, 'Land's End' and 'Missing Person'.
'Sea Breeze Bombay' is a fine, city poem by this poet. It is actually ...
,
A. J. Thomas,
Anju Makhija
Anju Makhija is an Indian poet, playwright, translator and columnist. She has won several national and international awards for her poetry in English.
Biography
Anju Makhija was born in Pune and spent several years in Canada. She has a master's ...
,
Anjum Hasan
Anjum Hasan is an Indian novelist, short story writer, poet, and editor. She graduated in philosophy from North-Eastern Hill University in Shillong, Meghalaya. She currently lives in Bangalore, Karnataka, India.
Career
Anjum Hasan's first book ...
,
Arundhathi Subramaniam
Arundhathi Subramaniam is an Indian poet and author, who has written about culture and spirituality.
Life and career
Subramaniam is a poet and writer based in Mumbai. She is the author of thirteen books of poetry and prose.
She has received ...
, Binay Laha,
Dr. Abdul Wahab Sukhan,
Hoshang Merchant
Hoshang Dinshaw Merchant (born 1947) is a poet from India. Most of his writings are in English. He is best known for his anthology on gay writing titled ''Yaarana''.
Early years and education
Hoshang Merchant was born in 1947 to a working clas ...
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Madan Gopal Gandhi
Dr. Madan G. Gandhi (31 August 1940 – 26 January 2019), a visiting fellow of St. John's College, Cambridge, was an educationalist, litterateur and poet.
Early childhood
Gandhi was born to Srimati Savitri Devi and Kewal Krishan on 31 August 19 ...
,
Bibhu Padhi
Bibhu Padhi, born Bibhu Prasad Padhi, on 16 January 1951, is an Indian poet. He writes in English and Odia, and is also a translator and literary critic.
Early life
Padhi was born on 16 January 1951 in Cuttack, Odisha. He studied at Ravensha ...
,
C. P. Surendran,
Dileep Jhaveri
Dileep Manubhai Jhaveri ( gu, દિલીપ મનુભાઈ ઝવેરી) is a Gujarati language poet, translator, playwright, editor and physician from Mumbai, India.
Biography
Jhaveri was born on 3 April 1943 in Mumbai, India to Ma ...
,
Anuradha Bhattacharyya
Anuradha Bhattacharyya (born 6 December 1975) is an Indian writer of poetry and fiction in English. Her novel ''One Word'' was awarded Best Book of the Year 2016 by the Chandigarh Sahitya Akademi. She is Associate Professor of English in Post ...
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Gopi Kottoor
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Jayanta Mahapatra
Jayanta Mahapatra (born 22 October 1928) is an Indian English poet. He is the first Indian poet to win a Sahitya Akademi award for English poetry. He is the author of poems such as "Indian Summer" and "Hunger", which are regarded as classic ...
,
Jeet Thayil
Jeet Thayil (born 1959) is an Indian poet, novelist, librettist and musician. He is the author of several poetry collections, including ''These Errors Are Correct'' (2008), which won the Sahitya Akademi Award. His first novel, '' Narcopolis,'' ( ...
,
Sridala Swami,
Jerry Pinto
Jerry Pinto (born 1966) is a Mumbai-based Indian English poet, novelist, short story writer, translator, as well as journalist. Pinto's works include '' Helen: The Life and Times of an H-Bomb'' (2006), which won the Best Book on Cinema Award at ...
,
Urvashi Bahuguna,
K Srilata
K. Srilata (also known as Srilata Krishnan) is an Indian poet, fiction writer, translator and academic based in Chennai. Her poem, ''In Santa Cruz, Diagnosed Home Sick'' won the First Prize in the All India Poetry Competition (organized by the B ...
,
K. V. Dominic,
D. C. Chambial,
T. Vasudeva Reddy
Dr. T. Vasudeva Reddy (21.Dec.1943 - 26.Aug.2020), from Tirupati, Andhra Pradesh, was a poet, novelist and critic in English. He authored 12 collections of poems, two novels and three critical works. His poems appeared in journals in India and abr ...
,
Makarand Paranjape,
Akhil Katyal,
Mani Rao
Mani Rao (born 28 February 1965) is an Indian poet and independent scholar, writing in English.
Biography
Mani Rao has authored twelve poetry collections and three books in translation from Sanskrit including the works of Kalidasa, a translatio ...
,
Meena Kandasamy
Ilavenil Meena Kandasamy (born 1984) is an Indian poet, fiction writer, translator and activist from Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India.
Meena published two collections of poetry, ''Touch'' (2006) and ''Ms. Militancy'' (2010). From 2001-2002, she edi ...
,
Menka Shivdasani
Menka Shivdasani is Indian poet. In 1986, she co-founded The Poetry Circle in Bombay, with Nitin Mukadam and Akil Contractor.
Bibliography
Poetry books
*''Nirvana at Ten Rupees'' published by XAL-Praxis Foundation, Mumbai .1990
* Stet, firs ...
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Manohar Shetty
Manohar Shetty (born 1953) is a Goa-based poet considered one of the prominent Indian poets writing in the English language.
He has been a Senior Fellow with the Sahitya Akademi, the Indian academy of arts and letters, and his work is found in se ...
,
Priya Sarukkai Chabria,
Sharanya Manivannan,
Ranjit Hoskote
Ranjit Hoskote (born 1969) is an Indian poet, art critic, cultural theorist and independent curator. He has been honoured by the Sahitya Akademi, India's National Academy of Letters, with the Sahitya Akademi Golden Jubilee Award and the Sahitya ...
,
Jaydeep Sarangi
Jaydeep Sarangi (Bengali: জয়দীপ ষড়ঙ্গী) is a bilingual writer, poet, and critic.
Early life
Jaydeep Sarangi was born on 11 December 1973 in Jhargram, West Bengal
West Bengal (, Bengali: ''Poshchim Bongo'', , ...
,
Jayanthi Manoj Robin Ngangom
Robin S Ngangom (born 1959) is an Indian poet and translator from Manipur, North Eastern India.
Biography
Robin Singh Ngangom was born in Imphal, Manipur of North Eastern India. He is a bilingual poet who writes in English and Meiteilon. He stud ...
, Nitoo Das,
Rukmini Bhaya Nair,
S. Anand
S. Anand is an Indian author, publisher and journalist. He, along with D. Ravikumar, founded the publishing house Navayana in 2003, which is "India’s first and only publishing house to focus on the issue of caste from an anticaste perspective." ...
,
Salik Shah,
Sudeep Sen,
Sukrita Paul Kumar,
Nalini Priyadarshni,
Vijay Nambisan,
Kumar Vikram,
Durga Prasad Panda
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Durga's legend centres around co ...
,
Brian Mendonca,
Syam Sudhakar,
Vihang A. Naik,
Tapan Kumar Pradhan
Tapan Kumar Pradhan (born 1972) is an Indian poet, writer and translator from Odisha. He is best known for his poem collection "Kalahandi" which was awarded second place in Sahitya Akademi's Golden Jubilee ''Indian Literature'' Translation Prize ...
,
Amitabh Mitra
Amitabh Mitra ( bn, অমিতাভ মিত্র) is an Indian-born South African physician, poet and artist, whose paintings depict dramatised stick figures.
Education and career
Mitra studied medicine and did postgraduate studies in ort ...
and
Yuyutsu Sharma among others.
Modern expatriate Indian poets writing in English include
Meena Alexander
Meena Alexander (17 February 1951 – 21 November 2018) was an Indian American poet, scholar, and writer. Born in Allahabad, India, and raised in India and Sudan, Alexander later lived and worked in New York City, where she was a Distinguished P ...
,
Ravi Shankar
Ravi Shankar (; born Robindro Shaunkor Chowdhury, sometimes spelled as Rabindra Shankar Chowdhury; 7 April 1920 – 11 December 2012) was an Indian sitarist and composer. A sitar virtuoso, he became the world's best-known export of North Ind ...
,
Sujata Bhatt,
Tabish Khair
Tabish Khair is an Indian English author and associate professor in the Department of English, University of Aarhus, Denmark. His books include ''Babu Fictions'' (2001), ''The Bus Stopped'' (2004), which was shortlisted for the Encore Award (UK ...
,
Vikram Seth
Vikram Seth (born 20 June 1952) is an Indian novelist and poet. He has written several novels and poetry books. He has won several awards such as Padma Shri, Sahitya Academy Award, Pravasi Bharatiya Samman, WH Smith Literary Award and Crosswor ...
and
Vijay Seshadri
Vijay Seshadri (born 13 February 1954) is an American, Brooklyn, New York–based poet, essayist and literary critic.
Vijay won the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for poetry, for ''3 Sections''.
Early life
Vijay's parents immigrated to the United States ...
among others
Anthologies
Notable anthologies of Indian English poetry include ''Ten Twentieth-Century Indian Poets'' (edited by
R. Parthasarathy
Rajagopal.Parthasarathy (born 1934) is an Indian poet, translator, critic, and editor.
Early life and education
Rajagopal Parthasarathy was born on 20 August 1934 in Tirupparaiturai near Tiruchchirappalli. He was educated at Don Bosco High Sc ...
), ''Three Indian Poets:
Nissim Ezekiel
Nissim Ezekiel (16 December 1924 – 9 January 2004) was an Indian Jewish poet, actor, playwright, editor and art critic. He was a foundational figure in postcolonial India's literary history, specifically for Indian Poetry in English.
He ...
,
A K Ramanujan
Attipate Krishnaswami Ramanujan (16 March 1929 – 13 July 1993) was an Indian poet and scholarly method, scholar of Indian literature and Linguistics. Ramanujan was also a professor of Linguistics at University of Chicago.
Ramanujan was a poet ...
,
Dom Moraes
Dominic Francis Moraes (19 July 1938 – 2 June 2004) was an Indian writer and poet who published nearly 30 books in English. He is widely seen as a foundational figure in Indian English literature. His poems are a meaningful and substantial c ...
'' (edited by Bruce Alvin King), ''The Oxford India Anthology of Twelve Modern Indian Poets'' (edited by Arvind Krishna Mehrotra), Reasons for Belonging: Fourteen Contemporary Indian Poets'' (edited by Ranjit Hoskote), ''60 Indian Poets'' (edited by
Jeet Thayil
Jeet Thayil (born 1959) is an Indian poet, novelist, librettist and musician. He is the author of several poetry collections, including ''These Errors Are Correct'' (2008), which won the Sahitya Akademi Award. His first novel, '' Narcopolis,'' ( ...
), ''HarperCollins Anthology of English Poetry'' (edited by
Sudeep Sen), Voices Now World Poetry Today (Edited by Binay Laha &B. K. Sorkar), ''Anthology of Contemporary Indian Poetry'' (edited by Menka Shivdasani, published by
Michael Rothenberg
Michael Rothenberg (1951 – 2022) was an American poet, songwriter, editor, artist, and environmentalist. Born in Miami Beach, Florida, Rothenberg received his Bachelor of Arts in English at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. H ...
in 2004); ''Ten: The New Indian Poets'' (edited and selected by
Jayanta Mahapatra
Jayanta Mahapatra (born 22 October 1928) is an Indian English poet. He is the first Indian poet to win a Sahitya Akademi award for English poetry. He is the author of poems such as "Indian Summer" and "Hunger", which are regarded as classic ...
and
Yuyutsu Sharma, New Delhi/Jaipur: Nirala Publications).
[Yuyutsu Sharma]
"Ten: The New Indian poets: Edited and Selected by Jayanta Mahapatra & Yuyutsu Sharma"
(review), 27 October 2012.
Awards and laurels
*
Muse India – Satish Verma Young Writers Award,
Hyderabad
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, India
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SAARC Literary Award
SAARC Literary Award is an annual award conferred by the Foundation of SAARC Writers and Literature ( FOSWAL) since 2001 Shamshur Rahman, Mahasweta Devi, Jayanta Mahapatra, Abhi Subedi, Mark Tully, Sitakant Mahapatra, Uday Prakash, Suman Pokhrel ...
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New Delhi
New Delhi (, , ''Naī Dillī'') is the capital of India and a part of the National Capital Territory of Delhi (NCT). New Delhi is the seat of all three branches of the government of India, hosting the Rashtrapati Bhavan, Parliament House ...
, India
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Sahitya Akademi Award
The Sahitya Akademi Award is a literary honour in India, which the Sahitya Akademi, India's National Academy of Letters, annually confers on writers of the most outstanding books of literary merit published in any of the 22 languages of the ...
– New Delhi, India
*Indology Literary Award -Raiganj, India.
Journals
*''Indian Literature'' – published by
Sahitya Akademi
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New Delhi
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, India
*''The Indian P.E.N.'' – edited by
Nissim Ezekiel
Nissim Ezekiel (16 December 1924 – 9 January 2004) was an Indian Jewish poet, actor, playwright, editor and art critic. He was a foundational figure in postcolonial India's literary history, specifically for Indian Poetry in English.
He ...
,
Mumbai
Mumbai (, ; also known as Bombay — the official name until 1995) is the capital city of the Indian state of Maharashtra and the ''de facto'' financial centre of India. According to the United Nations, as of 2018, Mumbai is the second- ...
, India
*Indology -edited by Binay Laha, West Bengal
*''The Journal of Poetry Society of India'' – published by
The Poetry Society (India)
The Poetry Society (India) was formed in July 1984 at New Delhi as a voluntary association to promote Indian poetry and to look after the interests of Indian Poets. The founding members included the Indian poets Keshav Malik, J P Das, H K Kaul ...
, New Delhi, India
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Kavya Bharati
''Kavya Bharati'' is an annual literary journal. Its primary language is English and also includes translations from Indian languages translated into English.
Objective
''Kavya Bharati'' is published by SCILET: The Study Centre for Indian Literatu ...
'' – published by SCILET: The Study Centre for Indian Literature in English and Translation, edited by R. P. Nair
Madurai
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Tamil Nadu
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, India
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Mithila Review
''Mithila Review'' is the only international science fiction and fantasy magazine published from India. It publishes original speculative fiction, poetry, reviews and interviews from authors from South Asia and around the world.
Contributors to ...
'' – founding editor and publisher
Salik Shah, New Delhi, India
*''
Muse India'' – founder and managing editor G. Surya Prakash Rao,
Hyderabad
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, India
*''
Coldnoon: Travel Poetics'' – edited by Arup K. Chatterjee, New Delhi, India
*''
Poetry Chain
''Poetry Chain'' is an English poetry journal of India published quarterly from Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India. The Indian English poet Gopi Kottoor is its founder editor. The journal was founded in 1997 with the mentoring of the Indian poet Ayy ...
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Gopi Kottoor
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Kerala
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, India
See also
*
Indian poetry
Indian poetry and Indian literature in general, has a long history dating back to Vedic times. They were written in various Indian languages such as Vedic Sanskrit, Classical Sanskrit, Tamil, Odia, Maithili, Telugu, Kannada, Bengali, Assamese, ...
Contemporary Indian Poetry in English*
Indian English Poetry
Indian English poetry is the oldest form of Indian English literature. Indian poets writing in English have succeeded to nativize or indianize English in order to reveal typical Indian situations. Henry Louis Vivian Derozio is considered the first ...
*
List of Indian English poetry anthologies
This is a list of anthologies of Indian English Poetry.
History
Indian English Poetry is one of the oldest forms of Indian English Literature. Indian poets writing in English have succeeded in Indianizing English in order to reveal nuances o ...
*
List of English poets from India
*
The Poetry Society (India)
The Poetry Society (India) was formed in July 1984 at New Delhi as a voluntary association to promote Indian poetry and to look after the interests of Indian Poets. The founding members included the Indian poets Keshav Malik, J P Das, H K Kaul ...
References
Further reading
* Arora, Sudhir K. "Cultural And Philosophical Reflections In Indian Poetry In English" (5 volumes). Authorspress, New Delhi, 2016.
* Chinhade, Sirish. ''Five Indian English Poets''. New Delhi. Atlantic Publishers and Distributors, 1996.
* Das, Sisir Kumar. ''A History of Indian Literature'' (3 volumes). New Delhi. Sahitya Akademi, 2000.
* Iyengar, KRS. ''Indian Writing in English''. New Delhi. Sterling Publishers Private Limited, 2002.
* King, Bruce. ''Modern Indian Poetry in English''. New Delhi. Oxford University Press, 2004.
* Mitra, Zinia. ''Indian Poetry in English : Critical Essays.'' PHI Learning , New Delhi, 2016.
* Naik, M.K. ''A History of Indian English Literature''. New Delhi, Sahitya Akademi, 2004.
* Sarangi, Jaydeep. "Explorations in Indian English Poetry". Authorspress, New Delhi, 2007.
External links
Five reasons Indian poetry matters more than everCultural Semiotics Reading of Contemporary Indian Poetry in EnglishContemporary Indian English Poetry* Roy, Pinaki. "Indian English Poetry: ''A very brief history''". ''Contemporary Indian Poetry in English''. Eds. Sarkar, J., and S. Mondal. New Delhi: Authors Press, 2016 ({{ISBN, 978-93-5207-113-5), pp. 11–29.
*Mitra, Amitabh. "Unforgettable Times: Indo English Poetry in the Seventies
Poetry movements
Indian poetry
Indian literary movements