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 extra-ordinary range of younger poets who live in many other countries. 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.