If Indian poets in English are less well known abroad than the novelists it is probably because their concerns are personal, local and yet universal; they do not write, at least not directly about the nationalist and postcolonial political and cultural themes that the West patronizingly expects, even demands, from the formerly colonized.
—Bruce Alvin King, Modern Indian Poetry in English. New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2004
Notable anthologies of Indian English poetry include Ten Twentieth-Century Indian Poets (edited by R. Parthasarathy), Three Indian Poets: Nissim Ezekiel, A K Ramanujan, Dom Moraes (edited by Bruce Alvin King), The Oxford India Anthology of Twelve Modern Indian Poets (edited by Arvind Krishna Mehrotra), 'Reasons for Belonging: Fourteen Contemporary Indian Poets (edited by Ranjit Hoskote), 60 Indian Poets (edited by Jeet Thayil), HarperCollins Anthology of English Poetry (edited by Sudeep Sen), Voices Now World Poetry Today (Edited by Binay Laha &B. K. Sorkar), Anthology of Contemporary Indian Poetry (edited by Menka Shivdasani,[1][2] published by Michael Rothenberg in 2004); Ten: The New Indian Poets (edited and selected by Jayanta Mahapatra and Yuyutsu Sharma, New Delhi/Jaipur: Nirala Publications).[3]
Kavya Bharati – published by SCILET: The Study Centre for Indian Literature in English and Translation, edited by R. P. Nair Madurai, Tamil Nadu, India
