Although Indian English Poetry dates back to the 19th century it was only in the 1950s that a comprehensive anthology of Indian English Poetry was published. Early efforts in the publication of Indian English Poetry anthologies were made in the 1920s, 1930s and 1940s but they were extremely infrequent and made very little impact.[1] However, since the 1950s there has been a steady amount of anthologies published every decade.
List of Poetry Anthologies
Early Indian English Poetry Anthologies
India in Song: Eastern Themes in English Verse by British and Indian Poets (1918) ed. Theodore Douglas Dunn and published by H. Milford
An Anthology of Indian Love Poetry (1976) ed. by Subash Saha and published by Prayer Books/ Firma KLM
Indian Verse in English: A Contemporary Anthology (1977) ed. by Syed Ameeruddin and published by Poets Press India, Madras
Strangertime: An Anthology of Indian Poetry in English (1977) ed. by Pritish Nandy and published by Hind Pocket Books, New Delhi
Hundred Indian Poets: An Anthology of Modern Poetry (1977) ed. by Pranab Bandyopadhyay and published by Oxford India, New Delhi
1980s
Indian Verse by Young Poets (1980) ed. by Pranab Bandyopadhyay and published by United Writers, Calcutta
Two Decades of Indian Poetry (1960–1980) (1980) ed. by K. N. Daruwalla and published by Vikas Publishing House, New Delhi
Indian Poetry in English: A Literary History and Anthology (1980) ed. by Amar Nath Dwivedi and published by Humanities Press
19 Poets: An Anthology of Contemporary Indo-English Poetry (1981) ed. by Keshav Malik and Manohar Bandopadhyay and published by Prachi Prakashan, New Delhi
New Voices in Indo-English Verse (1981) ed. by Syed Ameeruddin and published by Poets Press India, Madras
New Dimensions in Indo-English Poetry (1981) ed. by O. P. Bhatnagar and published by The Rajasthan Journal of English Studies (Nos. 13 and 14), Amravati
Modern Trends in Indo-Anglian Poetry (1982) ed. by H. S. Bhatia and published by Sita Publications International, Punjab
The Lotus: An Anthology of Contemporary Indian Religious Poetry in English (1988) ed. by Prabhu Guptara and published by Writers Workshop Calcutta
An Anthology of Indian English Poetry (1989) ed. by R. P. Singh & S. K. Prasad and published by Orient BlackSwan, Hyderabad
A Decade of Poetry (1997–98) eds. Prabhanjan K. Mishra, Menka Shivdasani, Jerry Pinto and Ranjit Hoskote Special edition (Vols. 6 and 7) of Poiesis : A Journal of Poetry Circle, Bombay
Reasons for Belonging: Fourteen Contemporary Indian Poets (2002) ed. by Ranjit Hoskote and published by Viking, New Delhi
Anthology of Contemporary Poetry from the Northeast (2003) ed. by Robin S. Ngangom and Kynpham Singh Nongkyrih and published by NEHU Publications, Shillong
An Anthology of Indian Poems: Native Petals (2005) ed. by Prof. (Dr.) Jancy James, Prof.(Dr.) Usha Menon, & Prof. M.Bhaskara Prasad. Published by Poetree Garden, Kerala University P.O., Trivandrum-695 034, Kerala, India.
Confronting Love: Poems (2005) ed. by Jerry Pinto & Arundhati Subramanian and published by Penguin Books India, New Delhi
We Speak in Changing Languages: Indian Women Poets (1990–2007) (2009) ed. by Ramakrishnan, E. V. and Anju Makhija and published by Sahitya Akademi, New Delhi
The Oxford Anthology of Writings from North East India – Poetry and Essays (2010) ed. by Tilottoma Misra and published by Oxford University Press, New Delhi
Ten: New Indian Poetry (2012) ed. by Jayanta Mahapatra & Yuyutsu Sharma and published by Nirala Publications, New Delhi
The Dance of the Peacock: An Anthology of English Poetry from India (2013) ed. by Vivekanand Jha and published by Hidden Brook Press, Canada
Exiled Among Natives (2013) eds. by Prof. Charu Sheel Singh, Dr. Binod Mishra and published by Adhyayan Publishers, New Delhi
Scaling Heights : An Anthology of Contemporary Indian English Poetry (2013) eds. by Dr. Gopal Lahiri and Dr. Kirti Sengupta and published by Authorspress, New Delhi
Suvarnarekha: An Anthology of Indian Women Poets Writing in English (2014) ed. by Dr. Nandini Sahu and published by The Poetry Society of India,[3] New Delhi
Tattooed with Taboos: An Anthology of Poetry by Three Women from Northeastern India[4](2015) ed. by Chaoba Phuritshabam, Shreema Ningombam & Soibam Haripriya and published by Partridge India, New Delhi
Contemporary Indian English Poetry: The Enchanting Verses Literary Review special edition: (2015) ed. by Abhay K and published by The Enchanting Verses Literary Review.[5]
Dilli: An Anthology of Women Poets of Delhi (2014) ed.by Semeen Ali and published by Poets Printery, South Africa & New Delhi
40 Under 40: An Anthology of Post-Globalisation (2016) ed. by Nabina Das & Semeen Ali and published by Paperwall Media & Publishing, Mumbai
Trainstorm : An Anthology of Alternative Train Poetry (2016) ed. by Amitabh Mitra and published by Poets Printery, South Africa & New Delhi
Home Thoughts: Poems from British Indian Diaspora (2017) ed. by Usha Kishore and Jaydeep Sarangi and published by Cyberwit India, Allahabad
Trips and Trials : A Selection of Poems and Songs (2018) ed. by Jayshree Misra Tripathi and published by PepperScript, Delhi
Travelogue : The Grand Indian Express (2018) ed. by Dr. Ananad Kumar and published by Authorspress, New Delhi
PEACOCKS IN A DREAM: AN ANTHOLOGY OF CONTEMPORARY INDIAN ENGLISH VERSE (2020) ed. by Inam Hussain Mullick and Subrata Biswas and published by The Alternative
The Great Indian Anthology Vol. 1 (2020) published by Half Baked Beans, New Delhi
The World The Belongs To Us: An Anthology of Queer Poetry from South Asia (2020) ed. by Aditi Angriras and Akhil Katyal and published by HarperCollins, New Delhi
Open Your Eyes: An Anthology on Climate Change (2020) ed. by Vinita Agrawal and published by Hawakal Publishers, Kolkata
Singing in the Dark: A Global Anthology of Poetry under Lockdown(2020) ed. by K. Satchidanandan and Nishi Chawla and published by Penguin Random House, New Delhi
Naik, M.K. A History of Indian English Literature. New Delhi: Sahitya Akademi, 2016. (ISBN978-81-260-1872-7)
King, Bruce. Modern Indian Poetry in English. New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2004. (ISBN978-01-956-7197-1)
Chaudhuri, Rosinka. A History of Indian Poetry in English. New Delhi: Cambridge University Press, 2017. (ISBN978-13-166-4652-6)
de Souza, Eunice. Early Indian Poetry in English: An Anthology: 1829-1947. New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2005 (ISBN978-01-980-6680-4)
Arora, Sudhir K. "Cultural And Philosophical Reflections In Indian Poetry In English" (5 volumes). Authorspress, New Delhi, 2016 (ISBN978-93-520-7206-4)
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