The Punch Magazine’s Poetry Issue 2023

Poetry from 40 poets around the world 

1. Slivers of time and Other Poems by Abha Iyengar

2. The Magic of the Fall and Other Poems by Abhishek Tripathy

3. Reality Check and Other Poems by Aidan Baker

4. Measurements: A Poem by Akshada Shrotryia

5. House Has A Tongue and Other Poems by Akshaya Pawaskar

6. Two Poems by Ambika Ananth

7. The Water Bird’s Song and Other Poems by Anu Majumdar

8. Dear Wind, Go Slow and Other Poems by Arup Pal

9. Writing A Love Poem and Other Poems by Basudhara Roy

10. Deceptions Through Midnight and Other Poems by Bhairavi M. Ponkshe

11. Gynoids in Making and Other Poems by Bhawna Vij Arora

12. District 9 as an Animated GIF and other poems by Cal Freeman

13. The Melody of Silence and Other Poems by Daler Aashna Deol

14. Fabricated and Other Poems by Devashish Makhija

15. Fire of the Thoughts and Other Poems by Dhruv Sharma

16.  Stories From the Edge — Five Poems by Indu Parvathi

17. If I Had No Names and Other Poems by Jinendra Jain

18. Grandma’s Passing and Other Poems by Kankana Basu

19. Don’t Worry and Other Poems by Karthik Keramalu

20. Two Poems by Kiran Chadha

21. Lora From Pristina and Other Poems by Lan Qyqalla

22. Neck of A Swan and Other Poems by Madhu Kailas

23. Mountain and Flower and Other Poems by Meher Pestonji

24. The Song of the Open Road by Mohua Chinappa

25. Speaking to My Plants and Other Poems by Neera Kashyap

26. Overwatering My Plant by Paavni Mehrotra

27. Pallavi Padma-Uday

28. Love Sounds Like This and Other Poems by Paroma S.

29. A Web of Coyness and Other Poems by Pramod Rastogi

30. The Two-Faced Mirror Between Us and Other Poems by Sanket Mhatre

31. Umbrella of Borrowed Words and Other Poems by Sarita Jenamani

32. A Drop of Tear and Other Poems by Shubhashish Kerketta

33. Unleaving the City-Five Poems by Siddharth Dasgupta

34. The Trident and the Tea-seller and Other Poems by Sonnet Mondal

35. The Eyebrow Man and Other Poems by Sreelekha Kopparambil

36. Don’t Listen to Sad Music and other poems by Subodh Deshpande

37. Behind the Scene and Other Poems by Sukrita Paul Kumar

38. The Tears the Earth Hides and Other Poems by Ujjwala Kakarla

39. Palden Gyatso was Made to Shit in a Bucket and Other Poems by Vinita Agrawal

40. This Rain That and Other Poems by Zachary Tichauer Bushnell