Poetry can be described as a home where language settles down, finds respite and moves out, to return when frayed. Wallace Stevens in his poem “Architecture for the Adoration of Beauty” alludes to ...

In 1991, following the sudden death of his first wife, Susan, Mike Bernhardt began writing poetry as a way to deal with his grief. In the poem “Sunday,” he writes, “Together, we survived the ...

Choosing a few words or a message for the dearly departed is a difficult decision. How do we say our final goodbyes? Poetry is one of the best mediums for capturing and expressing emotions and is very ...

Naveen Kishore’s Knotted Grief opens with an image of a caged bird that has been granted the “freedom” to fly. Unable to bear the vastness of the sky, the bird reconciles with its captivation when it ...

And waited for me to return from work.

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A smell of insane death is wafting everywhere.

Jeet Thayil’s necro-poems in These Errors are Correct (2008) that lament the premature passing of his wife Shakti Bhatt, and which later went on to win the Sahitya Akademi Award, introduced us to a ...