All That s Left Behind is a collection of poems that traverses memory, displacement, queerness, love, and resistance. These poems inhabit the space between elegy and erasure, where rivers remember, cities burn, and the body becomes both archive and aftermath. A mother s trench coat from 1983, a mango tree rooted in childhood, and a father s black Bajaj scooter become charged emblems in a poetics of radical compression and startling imagery. Here, language is both refuge and rupture, where memory is rendered volatile yet enduring. At once intimate and political, the collection meditates on what remains after love, departure, and naming, transforming silence into form and making erasure speak, cementing Aditya Tiwari as a distinctive contemporary voice in Indian poetry.
About the Author
Aditya Tiwari is a poet and broadcaster. His debut poetry collection April is Lush (2019) brought him early acclaim, followed by the widely praised anthology Over the Rainbow: India s Queer Heroes (2023). He is a former BBC producer and host of the BBC s Voices series on men s mental health, and has appeared on BBC Newsbeat (Radio 1, 1Xtra, Asian Network) and BBC Radio 4 in the UK. A TEDx speaker and Cosmopolitan s Ones to Watch, he received the India-UK Achievers Honours at the UK Parliament and was shortlisted for the Toto Award for Creative Writing. He was one of twelve journalists from India and Germany selected for a transnational media programme by the Goethe-Institut and Deutsche Welle. His work and interviews have appeared in The Washington Post, The Telegraph, GQ, Elle, VICE, Refinery29, The Times of India, Hindustan Times, Outlook, The Wire, PinkNews, and elsewhere. He has lived and worked across India, the United States, the United Kingdom, and Europe, while keeping Jabalpur, his hometown in central India, at the heart of it all. All That s Left Behind is his third book. Find him on Instagram and X @aprilislush.
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