I Want a Poem

I Want a Poem

And Other Poems

Jerry Pinto

This new collection of poems is about isolation, anger, loss, lockdowns, poetry and more, recently published together with a reissue of the author’s debut poetry collection, Asylum and Other Poems. It draws on a wide range of themes and spaces, including illness, letters, and memories of his grandmother’s return from Burma during the Second World War.

Speaking Tiger, Rs 299, 80 pages