Books: After Seeing (2006), Party Poopers (2014), and XXL (Dhauli Books, 2018). His work has appeared or is forthcoming in the Poetica Review, Columba, Periwinkle Literary Magazine, Reality Break Press, Brasilia Review and many others. Aditya Shankar is an Indian poet, flash fiction author, and translator. The difficult love between a murderer and his shadow.įleeting warmth and alienation of the lovelorn.Ī travelogue in the handwriting of knives on wounds.Īditya Shankar is an Indian poet, flash fiction author and translator. A new coat gobbles the graffiti, an extinct backdrop for the urban day. Aditya Shankar translates a poem by Sujith Kumar. The broken wall, no more a playground ingress or a sunset bench. Light that we pour between the table lamp and the sun. Poetry Poems by Aditya Shankar March 11, 2Place If you walk the streets of the city that I write about, you would call me a liar. His previous books include Party Poopers (2014) and A fter Seeing (2006). His work has been published or is forthcoming in Dead Snakes, Synchronized Chaos, 101 words, Hour After Happy Hour Review, CC&D, ‘Purrfect’ Poetry, Beakful, Shot Glass Journal, Earthborne, Terracotta Typewriter, and Eastern Voices anthology. He is working towards editing a book of translations, Tiny Judges Shall Arrive, for AHRC, Hong Kong. Aditya Shankar Aditya Shankar is an Indian English poet and flash fiction writer living in Bangalore. Merrell-Wolff states that Shankara accepts Vedas and Upanishads as a source of knowledge as he develops his philosophical theses, yet he never rests his case on the ancient texts, rather proves each thesis, point by point using the pramanas (means of knowledge) of reason and experience. People we dreamt together, yet search on the streets.Ī love unconfessed, more riddle than love.Ī grief, silent yet virile as a breath in a storm.Ī developing nation and the ghost of its looming debt.Ī small car that sees a truck in the mirror.Ī photograph on the table and the camera it liberated itself from. ADITYA SHANKAR writes and publishes poetry, flash fiction, and articles in leading journals across the globe.

Lines we never wanted to utter, but always did. Lines we wanted to tell each other, but never did.

Purrfect Poetry by Aditya Shankar