Wani Nazir — Excerpt: Exquisite Cadavers is good because it doesn’t try to be perfect. It is like works that don’t fit in a box.
Tabish Nawaz — Excerpt: The poems in the collection carve a path that leads us deep inside, searching within us a proverbial shelter. The presence of external, often teeming with natural elements, creates an opportunity for questioning our place in the space.
Basudhara Roy — Excerpt: A poem is read as much by the ear as by the eye. It establishes a relationship with the reader as much by defying as by conforming to poetic norms. Raychaudhuri’s poems stimulate both vision and sound.
Namrata — Excerpt: Gupta begins from a historical contradiction. Classical literature overflows with lush forests and sensuous rivers, yet the voices of forest communities and women are scantly inscribed in the canonical record. Her devised text steps into that absence without pretending to fill it with authenticity.
Albert Abdul-Barr Wang — Excerpt: The cover photograph taken by the author herself provides a clue to the range of themes: self-portraiture, literary craft, formalism, the female body, whiteness in relation to post-feminist America, and natural landscapes versus constructed interiors.