: ‘The poetic and the political has to go together’: Akhil Katyal on reading and writing poetry #IndiaNEWS Akhil Katyal is a poet, translator, and a teacher – and one of the most influential voices

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‘The poetic and the political has to go together’: Akhil Katyal on reading and writing poetry #IndiaNEWS
Akhil Katyal is a poet, translator, and a teacher – and one of the most influential voices in alternative poetry, especially among younger readers. His first poetry book, Night Charge Extra, was shortlisted for the Muse India Satish Verma Young Writer Award, and his second book of poems How Many Countries Does the Indus Cross won the Editor’s Choice Award from The Great Indian Poetry Collective. Katyal’s translation of journalist Ravish Kumar’s Ishq Mein Shahar Hona was published by Speaking Tiger as A City Happens in Love in 2018. In 2020, along with Aditi Angiras, Katyal edited A World That Belongs to Us – an anthology of queer poetry from South Asia. He also teaches Creative Writing at Ambedkar University, Delhi.At the 2022 Bengaluru Poetry Festival, Katyal spoke to Scroll.in about translating his own poetry across three languages, the role of social media in reading and writing poetry, the joys and challenges of writing poetry, and more.You write in Hindi, Urdu, and English and you also translate across these languages – including your own poems. What are the complexities of such projects? Do you feel that even though you are both the poet and translator, some nuances are difficult to convey in translation?You hope that you can give each language its due and not just translate the words...Read more

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