Tishani Doshi

A captivating and original story of two sisters caught in a moment of transformation, set against the vivid backdrop of modern India.

Small Days and Nights

I want to give this book to the people I love, and say to them, memorize this, never forget. -Jeet Thayil Each poem promises the sharpness of broken sea-shells, the smell of brine. In this collection, Tishani Doshi inhabits the different homes: her childhood, the body, cities that were passed through, cycles of rain. There are poems of celebration and homages, as there are poems lamenting human cruelty and dispassion. This is also a book of travel and of homecoming, of familiar decay and startling, haunting discoveries of our oldest themes of love, grief, suffering and anger.

Girls Are Coming Out of the Woods

A prize-winning poet's first work of fiction describes the love story between Babo, an Indian man, and Sian, a fair-skinned woman from Wales, who forged a life for themselves and their hybrid family in Madras, India.

A Novel

The Pleasure Seekers

An exquisite collection from a poet at the peak of her powers, A God at the Door spans time and space, drawing on the extraordinary minutiae of nature and humanity to elevate the marginalised. Extending the territory of her zeitgeist collection Girls Are Coming Out of the Woods, these new poems traverse history, from the cosmic to the quotidian. There is a playful spikiness to be found in poems like 'Why the Brazilian Butt Lift Won't Save Us', while others, such as 'I Found a Village and in it Were All Our Missing Women', are fed by rage. As the collection unfolds, there are gem-like poems such as 'I Carry My Uterus in a Small Suitcase' which sparkles on the page with impeccable precision. Later, there are the sharp shocks delivered by two mirrored poems set side by side, 'Microeconomics' and 'Macroeconomics'.Tishani Doshi's poetry bestows power on the powerless, deploys beauty to heal trauma, and enables the voices of the oppressed to be heard with piercing clarity. From flightless birds and witches, to black holes and Marilyn Monroe, A God at the Door illuminates with lines and images that surprise, inflame and dazzle.

A God at the Door

Girls Are Coming Out of the Woods is Tishani Doshi's third collection, following two earlier, highly praised collections, Everything Belongs Elsewhere, published by Bloodaxe in 2012, and her debut, Countries of the Body, winner of the Forward Prize for best first collection. Poetry Book Society Recommendation shortlisted for the Ted Hughes Prize.

In this, her first poetry collection since the award-winning Countries of the Body, Tishani Doshi returns to the body as a central theme, but extends beyond the corporeal to challenge the more metaphysical borders of space and time. These new poems are powerful meditations born on the joineries of life and death, union and separation, memory and dream, where lovers speak to each other across the centuries, and daughters wander into their mothers' childhoods. As much about loss as they are about reclamation, Doshi's poems guide us through an 'underworld of longing and deliverance', making the exhilarating claim that through the act of vanishing, we may be shaped into existence again. Everything Begins Elsewhere was followed by her third collection, Girls Are Coming Out of the Woods, in 2018.

Everything Begins Elsewhere

In her second book of poetry—and her American debut—Tishani Doshi returns to the body as a central theme, while extending beyond the corporeal to challenge the more metaphysical borders of space and time. These new poems are powerful meditations born on the joineries of life and death, union and separation, memory and dream, where lovers speak to each other across the centuries and daughters wander into their mothers’ childhoods.

Giorni e notti fatti di piccole cose

The American debut of Tishani Doshi, an Indian poet-novelist-dancer who explores the exhilarating "underworld of longing and deliverance."

Nanditha Krishna

A two part illustrated narrative on Chennai; authored separately by Tishan Doshi and Nandhita Krishna, with photo research & editing by Pramod Kapoor.

Madras Then Chennai Now

“We are homesick everywhere,” writes Tishani Doshi, “even when we’re home.” With aching empathy, righteous anger, and rebellious humor, A God at the Door calls on the extraordinary minutiae of nature and humanity to redefine belonging and unveil injustice. In an era of pandemic lockdown and brutal politics, these poems make vital space for what must come next—the return of wonder and free movement, and a profound sense of connection to what matters most. From a microscopic cell to flightless birds, to a sumo wrestler and the tree of life, Doshi interrupts the news cycle to pause in grief or delight, to restore power to language. A God at the Doorinvites the reader on a pilgrimage—one that leads us back to the sacred temple of ourselves. This is an exquisite, generous collection from a poet at the peak of her powers.

Shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best Collection 2021 'May we always have the music and elegant fury of Tishani Doshi's poetry.' FATIMA BHUTTO 'The poems of Tishani Doshi's A God at the Door operate on the grand scale, reaching for visionary responses ... stunning and ambitious.' THE GUARDIAN 'At the core of Doshi's poetry is a quest, traced through anguish and exhilaration, for that hidden yet ever-present harmony which connects all species, animates all things, heals all trauma. A reader could explore the topographies of this book for ever.' RANJIT HOSKOTE Tishani Doshi's new book of poems tackles hyper-nationalism and misogyny head on, transforming a collective grief, anger and loneliness into a beam of hope and resilience. Shortlisted for the 2021 Forward Prize for Best Collection, A God at the Door is nothing short of a tour de force.

'There is magic in her poems.' - U. R. Ananthamurthy. First published in 2006, Tishani Doshi's debut collection, Countries of the Body, marks the arrival of a major new voice in international poetry. It won the Forward Poetry Prize for best first collection. Each poem in this collection sings of the body with all its contours and contradictions. Republished in this very special edition, the poems will enchant readers old and new with their delicate and haunting quality.

Countries of the Body

Gang wars, opium dreams and a mysterious clinic are all part of the landscape in the remote borderland town of Fountainville. But when Owain Knight arrives, his entanglement with the owner of the town's magical fountain, her mobster husband and her assistant, Luna, spells a terrible change for them all. Fountainville is the tenth and final tale in Seren's New Stories from the Mabinogion series and weaves together Celtic and Indian cultures.

Fountainville

È iniziato tutto nel 1968, quando Babo è stato il primo membro della famiglia Patel a lasciare Madras e volare a Londra per approfondire la sua educazione. Suo padre avrebbe dovuto sapere che ne sarebbero nati dei guai. E infatti lo ritroviamo in un appartamento di Finchley Road, che fa l’amore in maniera decisamente poco ortodossa con una ragazza gallese dalla pelle color latte, Sian Jones, per la quale si è preso una cotta appena ha visto lo svolazzo di un nastro rosso tra i suoi capelli. La loro è una storia d’amore “misto” in un mondo sottosopra: le due famiglie non saranno mai più le stesse.Incontriamo allora i Patel-Jones: Babo, Sian, Mayuri e Bean, nella loro piccola casa dal cancello dipinto di arancione e nero, accanto alla sede dell’Associazione Donne del Punjab. Intanto, mentre il ventesimo secolo scorre sullo sfondo – da qualche parte là fuori Jim Morrison muore in una vasca da bagno, Carlo e Diana si sposano, Indira Gandhi è assassinata dalle sue stesse guardie del corpo, la tv via cavo arriva in India –, i quattro Patel-Jones navigano nei territori inesplorati della famiglia “ibrida”: la baraonda dei parenti di Babo, il lontano crepitio della linea telefonica di quelli di Sian, la saggezza eterna e il cuore generoso della bisnonna Ba, i pericoli dei primi amori, la perdita dell’innocenza e la vecchiaia, e l’ultima grande domanda: cosa fare degli spazi che le persone amate lasciano dietro di loro.In questo tenero esordio, lirico e solare, Tishani Doshi cattura senza sforzi vezzi e calamità di un clan molto inusuale, in una storia di identità, famiglia, appartenenza e instancabile amore."Un romanzo incantevole, splendido. Sono completamente conquistato dai personaggi di Tishani e dal suo mondo."Salman Rushdie

Il piacere non può aspettare

A sparkling debut about family, belonging and the binding power of love Longlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction 2011

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