K.Ramanujan, Arun Kolatkar, Keki N.

Daruwalla, Dom Moraes, DilipChitre, Eunice de Souza, Adil Jussawalla, Agha Shahid Ali, VikramSeth, and Manohar Shetty. Many of the poems chosen either present new facets of recognisedfaces, or deliberately differ from those repeatedly on offer in the more standard, mimic anthologies.

Each writer's work is prefaced by an introduction consisting of a mixture of insight, analysis, biographical information and critical comment. These introductory pieces, though brief, are in the nature of revaluations and so well-written as to be of interest in themselves.

A small clutch of significant new voices in the past few years has made it seem desirable to offer a carefully definedpicture of the state of the art. This is what makes this book attractive to anyone interested in poetic usages of English in contemporary India (less)