Glitchwork Format:PaperbackGlitchwork tracks the uneven lineages of Central India, building on modernist legacies and reckoning with the spectres of the 1984 Bhopal disaster. Mantra Mukims debut poetry collection is situated in a timeless, forested grid, poised on the verge of industrial erasure. This grid, a restless site of extraction and production, also brims with potential for lushness, fey ambience, and petite clearings. Its three long poems consist of fragments on a
In his arresting debut pamphlet
which is widely anthologised in Ireland and England
Wales has managed to keep its identity and language distinct
Commissioned by the Jencks Foundation at The Cosmic House
linguistic identity and the lyrical poetic voice
these poems rework the notion of ekphrasis into something elemental and tactile
where the scars of the different violences inflicted upon it remain
the gateway between China and Middle Asia
queerphobia
which are concerned with dealing with the effects of crime on people's lives
documenting her experience with searing vulnerability and authenticity
No longer are these the alienated poems of the long gap
