Arundhathi Subramaniam is an award-winning poet and writer on spirituality and culture. Winner of the inaugural Khushwant Singh Memorial Prize for Poetry in 2015, the Raza Award for Poetry and the International Piero Bigongiari Prize, she mostly lives in Bombay (a city she is perennially on the verge of leaving). She has published two books of poetry in Britain with Bloodaxe, Where I Live: New & Selected Poems (2009), which combines selections from her first two Indian collections, On Cleaning Bookshelves and Where I Live, with new work, and When God Is a Traveller (2014), a Poetry Book Society Choice which was shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize, won the inaugural Khushwant Singh Prize at the Jaipur Literary Festival, and was awarded the International Piero Bigongiari Prize in Italy. Her latest collection, Love Without a Story, was published by Bloodaxe in 2020. She has also written The Book of Buddha (Penguin, 2005) and Sadhguru: More Than a Life (Penguin, 2010), co-edited Confronting Love (Penguin, 2005), an anthology of Indian love poems in English, and edited Pilgrim's India: An Anthology (Penguin, 2011) and Eating God: A Book of Bhakti Poetry (2014). In 2006 she appeared at London’s Poetry International festival and gave readings throughout Britain on a tour organised by the Poetry Society. She also took part in the T.S. Eliot Prize reading at London’s Southbank Centre in January 2015.

By turns laconic and passionate, she asks questions about morality and integrity that many poets simply refuse to take on. Yet she is also an extraordinary love poet… A remarkable book from a remarkable poet.

• 7 I Grew Up in an Age of Poets9 Deleting the Picture12 A Theory of Wandering14 And Where It Might End16 Mitti19 Finding Dad21 The Strange Thing About Love22 La Verna25 A First Monsoon Again28 How to Read Indian Myth30 Remembering32 Bring on the Screen Savers34 The Fine Art of Ageing47 Missing Friends49 Parents50 Parents II51 When Landscape Becomes Woman53 This Could Be Enough55 Tongue57 Let Me Be Adjective59 Let There Be Grid61 The Need for Nests63 Ninda-stuti65 Song for Catabolic Women68 The End of the World69 Shorthand70 The Monk72 The Lover74 The Bus to Ajmer77 In Short78 The Problem with Windows79 Been There80 Backbencher81 If It Must Be Now82 ‘Dying is hard work’83 Goddess86 Goddess II87 Goddess III88 Memo89 Memo II90 In Praise of Conversations93 Afterword96 Acknowledgements