Jayant Kashyap: Poetry

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Recitations of poems by Jayant Kashyap, published by different journals.

  1. Jayant Kashyap: 'The White Trees'

    12/20/2025

    Jayant Kashyap: 'The White Trees'

    ‘The White Trees’ was commended in the tree poetry challenge on The (UK) Poetry Society’s Young Poets Network (YPN) in 2019. It was later animated by Rohit Gurumith Singh, and is available on YouTube here.

    1 min
  2. Jayant Kashyap: 'Visits after dark'

    12/13/2025

    Jayant Kashyap: 'Visits after dark'

    ‘Visits after dark’ is a sequence of three shorter poems building upon a rather old (incomplete) draft, which I expanded particularly to send to the Crow & Cross Keys. I’d first learned about the magazine following publication of some of Amy Wolstenholme’s poems in 2021, and ‘Visits after dark’ appeared in March 2025.

    2 min
  3. Jayant Kashyap: 'The Earth as a Woman Passively Smoking'

    12/06/2025

    Jayant Kashyap: 'The Earth as a Woman Passively Smoking'

    ‘The Earth as a Woman Passively Smoking’ was published as part of the Australian Plumwood Mountain Journal’s “The Transformative Now” issue in June 2023. The poem has an epigraph from Daniel Clark’s ‘Sixteen Haiku’, and in the introduction to the issue, guest editor Kristen Lang praised Kashyap’s work for having the capability to become a “part of the tapestry of a given time.”

    3 min
  4. Jayant Kashyap: 'My Mother Gives a Conservation Speech'

    11/29/2025

    Jayant Kashyap: 'My Mother Gives a Conservation Speech'

    ‘My Mother Gives a Conservation Speech’ first appeared in The Ilanot Review in 2023.

    1 min
  5. Jayant Kashyap: 'Burning the Stamps'

    11/15/2025

    Jayant Kashyap: 'Burning the Stamps'

    ‘Burning the Stamps’ dates back to 2018, if not further, which was when I was new to publishing poetry, and very affected by the very brilliant Agha Shahid Ali’s work (hence the mention here). At least sever years after having written the first draft of the poem, it appeared in the US-based Collateral in November 2025 as ‘On Burning the Stamps’.

    1 min
  6. Jayant Kashyap: 'Pyre'

    11/08/2025

    Jayant Kashyap: 'Pyre'

    ‘Pyre’ first appeared in The Bombay Literary Magazine’s 54th issue, in April 2023, and was praised for “an immersive experience.” It later appeared, in a slightly different form, in Kashyap’s New Poets Prize-winning third pamphlet Notes on Burials (smith|doorstop, 2025). The poem has Meg Dunley’s post from X (formerly Twitter) as epigraph: “Do birds always fly with purpose or also just for fun[?]”

    2 min
  7. Jayant Kashyap: 'A Positively Violent Poem in Five Parts'

    11/01/2025

    Jayant Kashyap: 'A Positively Violent Poem in Five Parts'

    ‘A Positively Violent Poem in Five Parts’ won the second prize in the Poems to Solve the Climate Crisis challenge on Young Poets Network in 2021. This challenge was created in partnership with People Need Nature, and set and judged by poet Louisa Adjoa Parker. It was later presented at COP26, the 2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference, in Glasgow, and featured as the UK Department for Education-commissioned KS4 ‘Poetry and nature’ resource. In 2024 and ’25, two research papers also mentioned this poem, praising it for being “pre-empt[ive of] any idea of easy solutions”, and noting it as “a good example of how a sophisticated structure can be combined with deep thought.”

    4 min
  8. Jayant Kashyap: 'On milelong walks to look at closed windows every once in a while'

    10/25/2025

    Jayant Kashyap: 'On milelong walks to look at closed windows every once in a while'

    ‘On milelong walks to look at closed windows every once in a while’ was published by Chismosa Press as part of their Volume 2 in 2019.

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