• Source: Indian poetry in English

Indian English poetry is the oldest form of Indian English literature. Henry Louis Vivian Derozio is considered the first poet in the lineage of Indian English poetry followed by Rabindranath Tagore, Sri Aurobindo, Sarojini Naidu, Michael Madhusudan Dutt, and Toru Dutt, among others.




History



Nissim Ezekiel 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, Michael Madhusudan Dutt, Sarojini Naidu, Sri Aurobindo and Rabindranath Tagore. Some of the notable poets of Ezekiel's time are A. K. Ramanujan, R. Parthasarathy, Gieve Patel, Jayant Mahapatra, Dom Moraes, Kamala Das, Keki N. Daruwalla, Arvind Krishna Mehrotra, Shiv K. Kumar, Arun Kolatkar and Dilip Chitre. 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, Kersy Katrak and P. Lal among others. The younger generation of poets writing in English are Abhay K, Adil Jussawalla, A. J. Thomas, Anju Makhija, Anjum Hasan, Arundhathi Subramaniam, Hoshang Merchant, Madan Gopal Gandhi, Bibhu Padhi, C. P. Surendran, Dileep Jhaveri, Gopi Kottoor, Jayanta Mahapatra, Jeet Thayil, Jerry Pinto, Urvashi Bahuguna, K Srilata, K. V. Dominic, D. C. Chambial, T. Vasudeva Reddy, Makarand Paranjape, Akhil Katyal, Aditya Tiwari, Mani Rao, Meena Kandasamy, Menka Shivdasani, Manohar Shetty, Priya Sarukkai Chabria, Sharanya Manivannan, Ranjit Hoskote, Jaydeep Sarangi, Robin Ngangom, Rukmini Bhaya Nair, S. Anand, Salik Shah, Sudeep Sen, Sukrita Paul Kumar, Nalini Priyadarshni, Vijay Nambisan, Syam Sudhakar, Vihang A. Naik, Tapan Kumar Pradhan, Amitabh Mitra and Yuyutsu Sharma among others.
Modern expatriate Indian poets writing in English include Meena Alexander, Ravi Shankar, Sujata Bhatt, Tabish Khair, Vikram Seth and Vijay Seshadri among others




Anthologies



Notable anthologies of Indian English poetry include Ten Twentieth-Century Indian Poets (edited by R. Parthasarathy), Three Indian Poets: Nissim Ezekiel, A K Ramanujan, Dom Moraes (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), 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 in 2004); Ten: The New Indian Poets (edited and selected by Jayanta Mahapatra and Yuyutsu Sharma, New Delhi/Jaipur: Nirala Publications).




Awards and laurels


Muse India – Satish Verma Young Writers Award, Hyderabad, India
SAARC Literary Award – New Delhi, India
Sahitya Akademi Award – New Delhi, India
Indology Literary Award -Raiganj, India.




Journals


Indian Literature – published by Sahitya Akademi, New Delhi, India
The Indian P.E.N. – edited by Nissim Ezekiel, Mumbai, India
Indology -edited by Binay Laha, West Bengal
The Journal of Poetry Society of India – published by The Poetry Society (India), New Delhi, India
Kavya Bharati – published by SCILET: The Study Centre for Indian Literature in English and Translation, edited by R. P. Nair Madurai, Tamil Nadu, India
Mithila Review – founding editor and publisher Salik Shah, New Delhi, India
Muse India – founder and managing editor G. Surya Prakash Rao, Hyderabad, India
Coldnoon: Travel Poetics – edited by Arup K. Chatterjee, New Delhi, India
Poetry Chain – edited by Gopi Kottoor, Kerala, India




See also


Indian poetry
Indian English Poetry
List of Indian English poetry anthologies
List of English poets from India
The Poetry Society (India)




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


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