Two poets from Bombay, Jeet Thayil and Arundhathi Subramaniam, are featured in the Levantine Center website as part of the September LR Poetry Selection.
Jeet Thayil (in photo), a poet, novelist and musician, is the author of four books of poems including These Errors Are Correct, and the editor of The Bloodaxe Book of Contemporary Indian Poets. He lives in Bombay.
Arundhathi Subramaniam is a poet, editor and cultural curator. She is the author of three books of poetry, the most recent being Where I Live: New and Selected Poems (Bloodaxe Publishers, UK, 2009). She has co-edited an anthology of Indian love poems in English (Confronting Love, Penguin, 2005) and has written a prose work, The Book of Buddha (Penguin India, 2005). She divides her time between Bombay and a yoga centre in south India.
Read their poems here.
