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Also by Ranjit Hoskote

Poetry

Zones of Assault (1991)

The Cartographer’s Apprentice (with drawings by Laxman Shreshtha, 2000)

The Sleepwalker’s Archive (2001)

Vanishing Acts: New and Selected Poems 1985–2005 (2006)

Central Time (2014)

Poetry (In Translation)

Die Ankunft der Vögel (in German, 2006)

Feldnotizen des Magiers (in German, 2015)

Poetry (As Editor)

Reasons for Belonging: Fourteen Contemporary Indian Poets (2002)

Dom Moraes: Selected Poems (2012)

Translation

A Terrorist of the Spirit (1992)

I, Lalla: The Poems of Lal De?d (2011)

Art Criticism and Cultural Theory

Pilgrim, Exile, Sorcerer: The Painterly Evolution of Jehangir Sabavala (1998)

The Complicit Observer: Reflections on the Art of Sudhir Patwardhan (2004)

Atul Dodiya: Antler Anthology (2004)

The Crucible of Painting: The Art of Jehangir Sabavala (2005)

Baiju Parthan: A User’s Manual (2006)

The Dancer on the Horse: The Art of Iranna G.R. (2007)

Bharti Kher (2007)

The Crafting of Reality: Sudhir Patwardhan, Drawings (2008)

Praneet Soi: Still, Life (2009)

Zinny and Maidagan: Compartment/ Das Abteil (2010)

The Dialogues Series (with Nancy Adajania, 2011)

Mohan Samant: Paintings (with Marcella Sirhandi and Jeffrey Wechsler, 2013)

Atul Dodiya (2014)

Future Publics (The Rest Can and Should Be Done by the People) (co-edited with Maria Hlavajova, 2015)

In the Presence of Another Sky: Sakti Burman (2017)

Cultural History

Kampfabsage (with Ilija Trojanow, in German, 2007)

Confluences: Forgotten Histories from East and West (with Ilija Trojanow, English version, 2012)

Artist Books

Pale Ancestors (with Atul Dodiya, 2008)

What’s He Going to Be Next? (with Sakti Burman, 2016)

Advance Praise for Jonahwhale

‘The poems in Ranjit Hoskote’s Jonahwhale are brilliant annotations on the giant landmass of history. With wisdom and erudition in plenty and a masterly grip on the quiet but lethal drama of verse, Jonahwhale is, on any measure, a major achievement.’—George Szirtes, poet and translator; author of The Burning of the Books and Bad Machine

‘A wonderfully ambitious, sophisticated and charged collection: a symphony of the sea in three great movements. The first explores history, language, geography, the Indian Ocean and colonization, with Shakespearian echoes of The Tempest. Then comes contemporary and personal human “traffic’’ – and urban alienation; and the third delves deeply into art. The forms, exquisite  lyrics, philosophical insights, prose poems, epics with still moments of pure  simplicity, are as multiple and shape-shifting as water. An astonishing achievement.’—Ruth Padel, professor of poetry, King’s College, London; author of Darwin: A Life in Poems and The Mara Crossing