"The HarperCollins Book of English Poetry", edited by Sudeep Sen, proves to be an essential compendium for academics, students, librarians and interested lay readers who want to sample the vibrant cultural and intellectual milieu of India, at home and in the world.
Poetic works of writers like Amit Chaudhuri, Anita Nair, Anjum Hasan, Jeet Thayil, Sen, Tabish Khair and Vikram Seth find place in the anthology.
The subject matter of the poems and their poetic concerns are staggeringly large and wide-ranging. There is introspection and gregariousness, politics and pedagogy, history and science, illness and fantasy, love and erotica, sex and death