Acknowledgments

'Mediterranean' appears in New Writing 15 (London: Granta).

'One Moonlit December Night' appears in The Lunar Visitations (New York), Postmarked India: New & Selected Poems (HarperCollins), and Confronting Love: Poems (Penguin).

'Flying Home' appears in Postmarked India: New & Selected Poems (HarperCollins), and in the Norton World Poetry Anthology, Language for a New Century (New York/London).

'Desire' appears in Lines of Desire (USA), Indian Literature, and Indian Love Poems (New York/London: Knopf/Random/Everyman's Library)

'Bharatanatyam Dancer' appears in Postmarked India: New & Selected Poems (HarperCollins), The London Magazine, Acumen, Wasafiri, Gentleman, Gallerie International, Inlaks Foundation Book, Findings on Ice, and others.

'Dreaming of Cézanne' appears in Druken Boat, Writing the Lines of our Hands, and Dreaming of Cezanne (Gallerie).

'Heather' is forthcoming in Erotext.

'Carole' is forthcoming in Erotext.

'Feminine Musk' appears in the nthposition.

'Winter' appears in The Literary Review and Red: An Anthology of Black British Poetry (Peepal Tree)

'Matrix' appears in The Literary Review, New Quest, The Journal, and Indian Literature.

'Almaya, Jaffa' appears in The Literary Review, Wolf, The Journal, Indian Literature, and Red: An Anthology of Black British Poetry (Peepal Tree)

'Prayer Call: Heat' appears in Postcards from Bangladesh (UPL/OUP), and Edinburgh Review 119 (2007).

'Kiss' appears in Rain (Mapin / Gallerie), Monsoon (Bengal Foundation), and Prayer Flag (USA/UK: Wings Press/Peepal Tree).

'Offering' appears in Prayer Flag (Peepal Tree, 2003) and Rain (Mapin/Gallerie, 2005)

Many of these poems have been broadcast on BBC, CNN, IBN, NDTV, PBS, AIR, among others.

All the poems listed above are forthcoming in Blue Nude: New Selected Poems & Translations 1980-2010.