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Egrets, While War is a lyric field guide to grief and resilience, where attention becomes a form of devotion, and intimacy, a quiet resistance.
The poems in Tishani Doshi's fifth collection navigate the deep entanglements between environmental loss, ancestral memory, the slow transformations of ageing, and the devastations of war. Birds appear throughout these pages, not simply as subjects but as symbols and messengers, witnesses to war, extinction and exile. Mythic birds from the Ramayana fly alongside city pigeons and wild peacocks, forming a living archive of flight and disappearance. Here, love and desire emerge not as consolation, but as a form of radical presence - one of the last ways we remain tethered to the world. With lyric clarity and a gaze both wide and precise, Egrets, While War becomes a meditation on survival - of species, of history, of the heart.
Tishani Doshi's previous collection, A God at the Door, was shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best Collection.
Contents
13 Amor Mundi
14 A Theory on the Origin of Language
15 Poem for a Stranger in a Time of War
17 Coming to Terms with the Metaverse, which Is Making Me Feel Old and Sad
18 Sonnet for the Dodo, Written Jet-lagged in Manchester as India and Pakistan Threaten War
19 De-extinction Postcard
20 Living Through the Apocalypse
21 A Stupa for the 49th Year of Life
22 Sonnet for the Two Birds in the Mundaka Upanishad
23 Wasps at the Faucet
24 Kill Them in the Morning
25 Sonnet for the Mattamayūra, the Drunken Peacocks: a 10th CE Tantric School of Poets, Who Were Neither Drunkards Nor Peacocks
26 The School of Drunken Peacocks
27 Tamil Nadu Summer Aubade
28 Home Speaks in Many Tongues
29 I See You. Do You See Me?
32 Childhood as Studio Scene
34 Sonnet for Martha, the Last Passenger Pigeon Who Died Aged 29 at the Cincinnati Zoo
35 Sonnet for George, Martha's Last Surviving Cage Mate
36 Post-atrocity Statement
38 The Albatross's Sonnet to Western Civilisation as the Madleen Sets Sail for Gaza
39 Cutting My Father's Toenails
40 Lizard Astrology
41 Sonnet for the Chātak: Steadfast Bird of Indic Love Poetry that Subsists Only on Raindrops
42 Love and Other Seasons
45 Seeing a Tube of Vicco Vajradanti Toothpaste in My Friend's Granny's Bathroom in Trinidad
46 Egrets, While War
47 Conversations in the After
48 Are You Awake?
49 After the Anthropause
50 Imperfect Sonnet for the Archaeopteryx
51 Your Garden of Earthly Delights Is My Wunderkammer, or a Spell Uttered while Being Banished into the Badlands of Perimenopause
53 My Sexbot Hal is a Mind Reader
55 January, Rescued by Rafa's Thighs
57 Jeff Bezos Goes to Space and Becomes a Bhakti Poet
59 Sonnet exchanged Between a Bird-Maiden and a Lost Sailor on the Island of Wāq-Wāq
60 My Welsh Grandfather Meets My Indian Grandfather on an Unspecified Mountaintop
64 Sonnet for the Two Birds that Kick off the Ramayana
65 Seven Poems for Kamadeva, who is not the Indian Cupid
68 In Want of Wanting
69 Perimenopausal Desire as Fruit-sucking Pink Underwing Moth
70 I am the last poet of the village
71 A Story Is a Stepwell Is an Underground River
74 What Happened Next We Do Not Know
76 Sonnet for My Sister and the Eagle Who Tried to Steal the Bobble off Her Hat in Taos
77 Imagine Everyone in the World Going Through the Same Existential Angst at the Exact Same Date
79 Time in Banaras
82 The Heartbreak Hour of Late Afternoon
83 The Brainfever Bird, Confused by Seasons
84 Some Words to the Close and Holy Darkness
87 Acknowledgements
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