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Full Name
  
Smita Agarwal

Name
  
Smita Agarwal

Role
  
Poet


Smita Agarwal

Born
  
India

Books
  
Wish-granting Words: Poems

Smita agarwal indian poetry in english reading


Smita Agarwal (born 1958) is a poet and professor of English at the University of Allahabad, India. In 1999 she was a writer in residence at the University of Stirling in Scotland, and the University of Kent in England.

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Smita Agarwal SMITA AGARWAL The Great Indian Poetry Project

Smita agarwal indian poetry in english reading


Biography

Agarwal's doctoral studies were on American poet, novelist and short story writer, Sylvia Plath. Agarwal is an editor and translator for Plath Profiles, the Sylvia Plath online journal, Indiana University, US.

Agarwal is also a vocalist for All India Radio.

Works

  • Wish-granting Words. New Delhi: Ravi Dayal Publisher, 2002
  • Mofussil Notebook. Poems of Small Town India. E-book: Cooperjal Limited, UK, 2011
  • Mofussil Notebook. Poems of Small-Town India, Print. With an Introduction and New Poems, Calcutta: Brown Critique/Sampark, 2013.

    • Edited

  • Marginalized: Indian Poetry in English, ed. Smita Agarwal, Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi, 2014.

    • Anthologized

    Agarwal's poems have been included in anthologies such as:

  • Literature Alive, New Writing from India and Britain, Vol. 2, Summer 1996.
  • Nine Indian Women Poets. Oxford University Press, 1997
  • Verse: Special Feature on Indian poetry, UK & USA, Vol. 17 & 18, 2001.
  • Reasons for Belonging. Penguin, 2002.
  • Midnight’s Grandchildren. Macedonia: Post Independence Poetry From India, Struga Poetry Press, 2003.
  • Confronting Love. Penguin, 2005.
  • Fulcrum: Special Issue on Indian Poetry in English, No. 4. US: 2005.
  • Sparks, DAV Center for Creative Education. Mumbai: New Panvel, 2008.
  • Indian English Women Poets. New Delhi: Creative Books, 2009.
  • We Speak in Changing Languages: Indian Women Poets, 1990-2007. New Delhi: Sahitya Akademi, 2009.
  • The HarperCollins Book of English Poetry, 2012.
  • These My Words: The Penguin Book of Indian Poetry, 2012.
  • The Dance of the Peacock: An Anthology of English Poetry from India, featuring 151 Indian English poets, edited by Vivekanand Jha and published by Hidden Brook Press, Canada.

    • References

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