Selection from the contemporary love poetry of Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Fiji, India, Nepal, Pakistan, Singapore, and Sri Lanka.

This anthology shows the influences of Western literature and the Western literary traditions, especially as they exist in world literature written in English.

In this study, ten independent critical essays and a coda explore the English-language poetry of South Asians in terms of time, place, themes and poetic methodo

'A bold and necessary correction to the subcontinent's poetry canon.' - Jeet Thayil This first-of-its-kind anthology brings together the best of contemporary qu

The authors cross the boundaries between anthropology, folklore, and history to cast new light on the relation between songs and stories, reality and realism, a