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Poetry

  • Smita Agarwal
    Wish-Granting Words. Ravi Dayal, 2002. [Sawnet Review]

  • Usha Akella
    Kali Dances. So do I. Authors and Writers, India. Jan 2000 [Sawnet Review]

  • Meena Alexander
    River and Bridge. TSAR Press, Toronto/Rupa, New Delhi. 1995.
    Illiterate Heart. Northwestern University Press, 2003. [Sawnet Review]
    Night-scene, the garden. Red Dust, New York, 1992.
    The Poetic Self. Humanities Press, N.J. 1980.
    Stone Roots. Arnold Heinemann, New Delhi. 1980.
    I Root My Name. United Writers Selling Agents, Calcutta. 1977.
    The Bird's Bright Ring. Writers Workshop, Calcutta. 1976.
    Raw Silk. Northwestern University Press, 2004 [Sawnet Review]

  • Moniza Alvi
    Souls. Bloodaxe, 2002.
    The Country at my Shoulder. Oxford University Press, 1993.
    A Bowl of Warm Air. 1996
    Carrying my Wife. Bloodaxe, Newcastle 2000.

  • Jean Arasanayagam
    Women, All Women. Writers Workshop, Calcutta. 2000. [Sawnet Review]
    Fragments of a journey/ Kandy.
    Reddened water flows clear. London ; Boston : Forest Books, 1991
    Trial by terror. Hamilton, N.Z. : Rimu Pub. Co., 1987

  • Susham Bedi
    Shabdon Ki Khirkiyan (Windows of Words). National Publishing House, Delhi. 2006

  • Sujata Bhatt
    A Colour for Solitude. Carcanet, 2002
    Brunizem. Carcanet Press/ Penguin New Delhi.
    The Stinking Rose. Carcanet Press/ Penguin New Delhi.
    Augatora. Carcanet, 2000
    Monkey Shadows. Carcanet, 2001

  • Ramola D
    Invisible Season. Washington Writers Publishing House, 1998.

  • Kamala Das
    Kamala Das, selected poems..
    Tonight, this savage rite..
    The Old Playhouse and other poems.

  • Attiya Dawood
    Raging to be free.. Maktab-e-Danyal, Karachi.
    Sharafat Jee Pulsarat. Suhaee Books, Karachi.

  • Tara Deshpande

  • Eunice deSouza
    Dangerlok. Penguin India, 2002.
    Fix. 1979
    Women in Dutch painting. 1988.
    ays of Belonging. 1990

  • Imtiaz Dharker
    I Speak for the Devil. Bloodaxe, 2001
    Purdah and Other Poems. Oxford University Press, Delhi, 1989.

  • Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
    Dark Like the River.
    The Reasons for Nasturtiums. 1990.
    Black Candle. 1991
    Leaving Yuba City.. Anchor Books, 1997.

  • Ketaki Kushari Dyson
    Memories of Argentina. Virgilio Libro, 1999 [Sawnet Review]

  • Yasmine Gooneratne
    Celebrations and Departures: Selected Poems 1951-1991. Wild and Woolley Pty Ltd., Sydney, 1991.

  • Anjum Hasan
    Street on the Hill. Central Sahitya Akademi, Delhi.

  • Zilka Joseph
    Lands I Live In. Mayapple Press, 2007

  • Feroza Jussawalla
    Chiffon Saris. TSAR Books, 2003

  • Maya Khosla
    Keel Bone. Bear Star Press, Ca. 2003

  • Sukrita Paul Kumar
    Apurna. Writers Workshop, Calcutta. 1990
    Folds of Silence. Writers Workshop, Calcutta. 1998

  • Anupama Mohan
    Twenty Odd Love Poems. Writer's Workshop, Kolkata. 2008 [Sawnet Review]

  • Sunanda Mongia
    Upon my Word. Sanbun Publishers, New Delhi [Sawnet Review]

  • Shani Mootoo
    The Predicament of or. Raincoast Books, 2001.

  • Dipika Mukherjee
    The Palimpsest of Exile. Rubicon Press, 2009 [Sawnet Review]

  • Raman Mundair
    Lovers, Liars, Conjurers and Thieves. Peepal Tree Press, 2003 [Sawnet Review]

  • Sarojini Naidu
    The Golden Threshold.
    The Bird of Time. 1912
    The Sceptred Flute. 1928

  • Panna Naik
    Pravesh. 1976
    Philadelphia. 1980
    Nisbat. 1984
    Arasparas. 1989
    Avanjavan. 1991
    Videshini. 2000
    Rangjharukhe. 2004
    Cherry Blossoms. 2004

  • Anita Nair
    Malabar Mind. Yeti Books, 2002 [Sawnet Review]

  • Rukmini Bhaya Nair
    The Hyoid Bone.
    The Ayodhya Cantos. 2000

  • Gillian Hanscombe & Suniti Namjoshi
    Flesh and Paper. Jezebel Tapes and Books, Devon, 1986.

  • Suniti Namjoshi
    Building Babel. Spinifex, Melbourne, 1996.
    Saint Suniti and the dragon. Virago Press, London, 1994.
    The Mothers of Maya Dip. Women's Press, London. 1989.
    Because of India.
    The Conversations of Cow. Women's Press, London, 1985.

  • Taslima Nasrin
    Poetry available online. at humanists.net

  • Aimee Nezhukumatathil
    Miracle Fruit. Tupelo Press, 2003. [Sawnet Review]

  • Uma Parameswaran
    Sisters at the Well. Indialog, 2002.
    Trishanku. Toronto South Asian Review, 1988.

  • Amrita Pritam
    Skeleton.
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  • Anne Ranasinghe
    Mascot and symbol. English Writers Cooperative of Sri Lanka, Colombo, 1997.
    Against Eternity and Darkness. English Writers Cooperative, Colombo, 1985. Reprinted 1996.
    Not even shadows. English Writers Cooperative, Colombo, 1991.
    At what dark point. English Writers Cooperative, Colombo, 1991.
    Poems - And a Sun That Sucks The Earth to Dry. 1971.

  • Mani Rao
    Salt. Asia 2000
    Echolocation. Chameleon Press, 2003
    The Last Beach. Asia 2000, Hong Kong, 1999.
    Living Shadows. HK Arts Development Council, Hong Kong, 1997.
    Catapult Season. Writers Workshop, Calcutta. 1993

  • Hima Raza
    Memory Stains. Minerva, UK. 2002 [Sawnet Review]

  • Bushra Rehman
    Marianna's Beauty Salon. Vagabond Press, 2001

  • Arundhati Subramaniam
    On Cleaning Bookshelves. Allied Publishers, Mumbai. 2001

  • Nalla Tan
    The Collected Poems of Nalla Tan. Times Books International, 1997 [Sawnet Review]

  • Ruth Vanita
    A Play of Light: Selected Poems. Penguin India, 1994

  • Reetika Vazirani
    White Elephants. Beacon Press, 1996.
    World Hotel. Copper Canyon, 2002 [Sawnet Review]

  • Pramila Venkateswaran
    Thirtha. Yuganta Press, 2003. [Sawnet Review]
    Behind Dark Waters. Plain View Press, 2008 [Sawnet Review]

  • Mahadevi Verma
    Dipshikha. 1942.

    Anthologies

  • Beyond Belief: Contemporary feminist Urdu poetry. ASR Publications, Lahore, 1990. Reprinted as 'We Sinful Women', The Women's Press, London, 1990

  • Hers: India Perspectives. Writer's Workshop, Calcutta, 1978

  • In Their Own Voice. Penguin Books, New Delhi, 1993.

  • L'India dell'anima. Le Lettere, Florence, Italy [Sawnet Review]

  • Nine Indian Women Poets. Oxford University Press, 1997. [Sawnet Review]

  • Poems by Nepali Women. Singh Prakashan, Kathmandu. 1994.

  • Putting the Pickle where the Jam Should be. Write Back, Sheffield. 1993.

  • The Redbeck Anthology of British South Asian poetry. Redbeck, London, 2000.

  • Women Bhakta Poets. Manushi Trust, New Delhi, 1989.

  • Women poets of India. United Writers, Calcutta, 1997.
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