Praise for Arundhathi Subramaniam's Poetry 'By turns both laconic and passionate, she asks questions about morality and integrity that many poets simply refuse to take on. Yet she is also an extraordinary love poet... A remarkable book from a remarkable poet.' - John Burnside, Poetry Review '... one of the finest poets writing in India today ... It is not dulcet music you hear in Where I Live. It's the swish of swordplay, each poem skewered at sabre-point and then placed on an electric grille to sizzle like a rasher on a barbecue.' - Keki Daruwalla, The Hindu '... a strong personality and an individual voice; her poems feel as if they are meant to be read aloud as well as on the page.' Bruce King, Journal of Postcolonial Literature 'Few poets capture contradictory impulses so convincingly
Arundhathi Subramaniam
Arundhathi Subramaniam is the award-winning author of eleven books of poetry and prose. Widely translated and anthologised, her last volume of poetry, When God Is a Traveller was the Season Choice of the Poetry Book Society, shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize. She is the recipient of various prizes and fellowships, including the inaugural Khushwant Singh Prize, the Raza Award for Poetry, the Zee Indian Women’s Award for Literature, the International Piero Bigongiari Prize in Italy, the Homi Bhabha Fellowship, the Charles Wallace Fellowship, among others. She has worked over the years as poetry editor, curator and critic. As prose writer, her books include The Book of Buddha, the bestselling biography of a contemporary mystic, Sadhguru: More Than a Life and most recently, Adiyogi: The Source of Yoga(co-authored with Sadhguru). As editor, her most recent book is the acclaimed anthology of Bhakti poetry, Eating God.
Arundhathi Subramaniam