A Story of the World Before the Fence
by Leeya Mehta
Cover art: Circumambulation, 2019, by Vinod Balak
Select anthologies featuring new work
The Penguin Book of Indian Poets
Poetry
Jeet Thayil has compiled the definitive anthology of Indian poetry in English. This monumental undertaking, two decades in the making, brings together writers from across the world, a wealth of voices–in dialogue, in soliloquy, in rhetoric, and in play–to present an expansive, encompassing idea of what makes an ‘Indian’ poet. Included are lost, uncollected, or out of print poems by major poets, essays that place entire bodies of work into their precise cultural contexts, and a collection of classic black and white portraits by Madhu Kapparath. These images, taken over a period of thirty years, form an archive of breathtaking historical scope. They offer the viewer unparalleled intimacy and access to the lives of some of India’s greatest poets.
Recent anthologies featuring new work
A 2020 anthology of Women Writers
Fiction
“How Does One Make a Woman Like That Happy?” appears in Furious Gravity, 2020.
Jamie and Julia met at Oxford. Married now, they appear to have lived a perfect life, but will Jamie's dissatisfaction get the better of him? As they swim out into the Delaware Bay, what will happen?
Plume 6.
Plume is rapidly becoming one of the best places in America to read poetry, online and in print, thanks to the untiring efforts of Danny Lawless. It’s where to find dazzling work by new and established writers, and, thanks to the new technology, it is available instantly to readers by the millions.
~ Grace Schulman
Daniel Lawless has a gift for publishing poets who not only represent the breadth and depth at which the art is practiced today, but who together make—how to say it?—a feisty crowd, their proximity in the pages of Plume creating all sorts of surprising angles of vision.
~ Clare Rossini
The Plume Anthology of Poetry is a wild and lovely gathering of poems and poets. Lawless has pulled together a time and place in a selection of some of the most interesting work being done.
~ Laura Kasischke
