monsoon 2022
editorial
The poems of Ari Sitas, from South Africa, are both hard and tender, and as if emerging from primal ground.
The god of fire, Agni, and the goddess of speech, Vac, are invoked anew by Amit Majmudar.
Souradeep Roy weaves a poem that brings together history, melodrama and the Bengal famine in It Will Come Back: An Elegy
Vahni Capildeo merges the discursive and the lyrical with their signature originality. Listen to them reading at the 2011 Almost Island Dialogues.
S. Bharat reflects on the archive and its paradoxes.
Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay, the great Bengali novelist, left behind writings on his encounters with nature, especially with deep forests, at times of personal loss. Somak Ghoshal explores the dimensions of loss that emerge in these writings.
Sharmistha Mohanty writes a tribute to her friend, the profound writer Sergio Chejfec who passed away on April 2 of this year.
Hubert Matiúwàa offers us an intimate catalogues of loss, care and retaliation. His elegy is for the enigmatic deer who is as much a cipher as a cause of our dispossession.
Celerina Patricia Sánchez Santiago plows below the surface of what is visible and tactile, looking for newer shelters.
Our annual writers meet
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A brief video introducing almostisland from our 10th year Dialogues in 2017
In this brief reading are (from left to right): Manglesh Dabral, I. Allan Sealy, Bei Dao, Arvind Krishna Mehrotra, Mohammed Bennis, Sergio Chejfec, Vivek Narayanan, Sharmistha Mohanty and Rahul Soni.