Poetry Club: Tishani Doshi

Join us for an illuminating evening of poetry with the acclaimed Welsh-Indian poet, novelist and dancer Tishani Doshi. Doshi will be reading from her powerful new collection Egrets, While War (Bloodaxe Books), a lyric field guide to grief and resilience that finds beauty and resistance in the face of loss and upheaval.

In Egrets, While War, birds become messengers and witnesses, from mythic creatures of ancient epics to the everyday city pigeon, navigating environmental loss, ancestral memory, ageing, and the devastations of war. With lyric precision and emotional breadth, Doshi’s poems turn intimacy into a form of radical presence, offering a meditation on survival, of species, history, and the heart.

Tishani Doshi’s previous collection, A God at the Door, was shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best Collection:

“A generous mix of cosmic myth and earthy wit, Tishani Doshi’s fourth collection, A God at the Door, is wise and profound, with the lightest of touches…” – Rishi Dastidar, The Guardian

“A God at the Door by Tishani Doshi is full of stand-out poems – dynamic, heartbreaking, full of colour and rage. I keep going back to it only to find even more depths, more colours, the whole world’s in there!” – Pascale Petit, Poetry Society

Doshi was part of Coronet Inside Out in 2021. You can watch her video, where she reads from A God at the Door, here.

Additional poet to be announced.

Tishani Doshi

Tishani Doshi publishes poetry, essays and fiction. Her most recent books are Girls are Coming Out of the Woods, shortlisted for the Ted Hughes Award for poetry, and a novel, Small Days and Nights, shortlisted for the RSL Ondaatje Prize. For fifteen years she worked as a dancer with the Chandralekha Group in Chennai. Her fourth full-length collection of poetry, A God at the Door, has just been published by Bloodaxe Books. She is a visiting associate professor at New York University, Abu Dhabi, and otherwise lives in Tamil Nadu, India.