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Janani Ambikapathy

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Janani Ambikapathy is a poet, critic, and translator. Her recent pamphlet If Not Theirs was published by Veer2. Her poems and essays have appeared in Lana Turner, Firmament, Datableed, The Rialto, Visual Verse, Modernism/modernity, Modern Poetry in Translation, and Hopscotch Translation. She lives in London. Ambikapathy is a reviewer for Harriet Books. 

Book Reviews

  • A Blind Salmon

  • A Song of Flowers: Ni Xochitl, Ni Kuikatl

  • Bending into the Light

  • Cahier

  • Capitolo Zero

  • Chambersonic

  • Emerald Wounds: Selected Poems

  • Ernst Meister Uncollected Later Poems (1968–1979)

  • Every Minute Is First

  • Granny Cloud

  • Hopscotch

  • Hungry Ghosts

  • If Today Were Tomorrow

  • Inner Verses

  • Interior Landscape

  • Is it Poetry?

  • Just Like

  • Lonespeech

  • Lunar Solo

  • Mandible Wishbone Solvent

  • No Gods Live Here

  • Origins of the Syma Species

  • Poem Bitten by a Man

  • Refugee Number 33,333

  • Removal Acts

  • Secret Poetics

  • Sleep

  • Strangers in Light Coats: Selected Poems, 2014–2020

  • Tablets: Secrets of the Clay

  • The Book

  • The Brush

  • The Grasp of Things

  • The Grid

  • The Lady of Elche

  • The Lantern and the Night Moths

  • The Naming of Names

  • The Poetic Garden of Liu Zongyuan

  • The Ruins of Nostalgia

  • The Same Moon Shines on All: The Lives and Selected Poems of Yanagawa Seigan and Kōran

  • The Stone Serpent

  • The Universe, All at Once

  • Theft of a Tree

  • Three Demons

  • Time Without Keys

  • To the Letter

  • Treasurer of Piggy Banks

  • What of the Earth Was Saved

  • Where Not to Be Born

  • Yaguareté White: Poems

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