Books by Tishani Doshi

Poetry

Everything Begins Elsewhere

Conflict and Instability (with Tobias Hill and Aoife Mannix)

Countries of the Body

Fiction

The Pleasure Seekers

Links

www.tishanidoshi.com

www.youtube.com/watch?v=EbihxX-KxnQ

Acknowledgments

Grateful acknowledgment is made to the editors of the following publications: Asia Literary Review, The Bloodaxe Book of Contemporary Indian Poets, The Caravan, First City, Five Dials, Guernica, The HarperCollins Book of English Poetry, Jubilee Lines: 60 Poets for 60 years, Mint, The Moth, Narrative, New Welsh Review, Poetry Review, Poetry Wales, The Rising, Sand, 60 Indian Poets, Tate Etc., Vislumbres, and The Warwick Review.

“Ode to Drowning” was commissioned by Johannes Beilharz for Inspired Poems.

“The Dream” is forthcoming from Motionpoems.

Earlier versions of “The Dream,” “Evening on an Indian Railway Platform,” “Homeland,” “The Immigrant’s Song,” “Lament — I,” and “Lament — II” appeared in a chapbook, Conflict and Instability, commissioned by Lloyd’s and Poet in the City.

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Cover art: Bharti Kher, Peacock, 2009. Bindis on painted board. 151.8 × 151.8 cm / 59.75 × 59.75 inches.

ISBN: 978-1-55659-442-7

eISBN: 978-1-61932-057-4

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