A wide-ranging contemporary South Asian poetry anthology—the first of its kind at this scale and vision—showcasing voices across borders, languages, and generations, gathered in one urgent, resonant volume.
Earth and Embers assembles contemporary poems that ‘capture the quicksand temperament’ of South Asia today—across volatile politics, ecological precarity, pandemic grief, and everyday tenderness. Conceived in 2019–20 and sharpened by the years since, the anthology places English originals alongside a dedicated translations section, foregrounding multiplicity over a single ‘representative’ narrative. Poets write of borders and belonging, exile and desire, the digital and the ancestral; the result is a chorus that resists erasure and imagines futures with clarity and care.
Rachel Bari, a retired professor of English from the Department of English, Kuvempu University, Karnataka is an academician, poet and short story writer. Her poems and short stories can be found in Poetry Today, Poet crit, Poetry Globe anthology, The Literary Criterion, Muse India, and Sethu, among others.
Educationist, author and poet Dr Ishmeet Kaur Chaudhry is an associate professor at the Department of English Studies at Central University of Gujarat, Kundhela, Vadodara. She is the editor of Remembering the Past: Critical Perspectives on the Anti-Sikh Violence of 1984 (2025), Black November: Writings on Anti-Sikh Massacres of 1984 and the Aftermath (2019) and other books. She has published three collections of poems.
Shweta Rao Garg is a poet, artist and an academic. Her poetry collection, Of Goddesses and Women, was published by Sahitya Akademi in 2021. She is the author of the graphic novel, The Tales from Campus: A Misguide to College, published by Crossed Arrows. Her poems have been published in Postcolonial Text, Transnational Literature, Alimentum: The Literature of Food, Coldnoon, Muse India, Indian Literature, among others.
A wide-ranging contemporary South Asian poetry anthology—the first of its kind at this scale and vision—showcasing voices across borders, languages, and generations, gathered in one urgent, resonant volume.
Earth and Embers assembles contemporary poems that ‘capture the quicksand temperament’ of South Asia today—across volatile politics, ecological precarity, pandemic grief, and everyday tenderness. Conceived in 2019–20 and sharpened by the years since, the anthology places English originals alongside a dedicated translations section, foregrounding multiplicity over a single ‘representative’ narrative. Poets write of borders and belonging, exile and desire, the digital and the ancestral; the result is a chorus that resists erasure and imagines futures with clarity and care.
Rachel Bari, a retired professor of English from the Department of English, Kuvempu University, Karnataka is an academician, poet and short story writer. Her poems and short stories can be found in Poetry Today, Poet crit, Poetry Globe anthology, The Literary Criterion, Muse India, and Sethu, among others.
Educationist, author and poet Dr Ishmeet Kaur Chaudhry is an associate professor at the Department of English Studies at Central University of Gujarat, Kundhela, Vadodara. She is the editor of Remembering the Past: Critical Perspectives on the Anti-Sikh Violence of 1984 (2025), Black November: Writings on Anti-Sikh Massacres of 1984 and the Aftermath (2019) and other books. She has published three collections of poems.
Shweta Rao Garg is a poet, artist and an academic. Her poetry collection, Of Goddesses and Women, was published by Sahitya Akademi in 2021. She is the author of the graphic novel, The Tales from Campus: A Misguide to College, published by Crossed Arrows. Her poems have been published in Postcolonial Text, Transnational Literature, Alimentum: The Literature of Food, Coldnoon, Muse India, Indian Literature, among others.
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