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The Women No Longer Wait
Poems Celebrating Women and Upside-Downness
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A wobbling world tries to find its axis: fabrics tear, lands splinter, loved ones vanish, names fade.
This session intertwines conversation and poetry, inviting audiences into the bold, shimmering world of Arundhathi Subramaniam’s luminous new collection. In conversation with author Shinie Antony, the two will trace the arc through the sacred and the feminine, culminating in this celebration of fierce, unruly womanhood.
Sumbramaniam’s collection takes us through shifting landscapes, following the strides of extraordinary women. Women who vault over borders, stroll naked through history, tilt sideways into the unexpected, and sometimes walk entirely upside down. They blur the boundaries between the mundane and the magical, the remembered and the imagined, revealing a world waiting quietly within the old one. Welcome a world that demands new ways of being, new acts of courage, new freedoms!
A Q&A will close the evening.
Speakers
Arundhathi Subramaniam
Arundhathi Subramaniam is one of India’s most acclaimed contemporary poets, author of fifteen books of poetry and prose. Her recent works include Wild Women, an anthology of female mystic poetry, and Women Who Wear Only Themselves. Shortlisted for the TS Eliot Prize (2015), she has received the Sahitya Akademi Award for Poetry (2020), the Il Ceppo Prize, and the Mahakavi Kanhaiyalal Sethia Award, among many others. A critic, curator, and poetry editor, she divides her time between New York, Chennai, and Mumbai.
Shinie Antony
Shinie Antony is the award-winning author of Eden Abandoned: The Story of Lilith, winner of the Wise Owl Prize for Fiction (2025) and longlisted for the AutHer Awards. Her novellas include The Girl Who Couldn’t Love and Can’t, and she has edited several noted anthologies such as Hell Hath No Fury and An Unsuitable Woman. Her short story A Dog’s Death won the Commonwealth Short Story Asia Prize (2002). Having grown up across Bombay, Delhi, Kochi and Kavaratti, she now lives and writes in Bangalore.
