From The Journey Within Performance | a collaboration with the artist Olivia Fraser
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A THEORY ON THE ORIGIN OF LANGUAGE,
PUBLISHED IN THE NEW YORKER
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The few times I was taken to temple or church I never knew what to do: how many times to circumambulate or ring the bell, when to close eyes or open them, sit, stand, kneel, bend.
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Nyāsa was performed as the finale of the opening week of the Sharjah Biennial 2025
On THE VERB
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Elected as a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, London. Signing with Lord Byron's pen photo: the RSL and Adrian Pope
JULY 2023
Language is never just about what is being said; it is also about how it is held.
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What is the first measurement of time? A heartbeat, or the silence before?
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DOUBLE VISION -
A RADIO ESSAY FOR BBC 3
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A GOD AT THE DOOR IS SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2021 FORWARD PRIZE FOR POETRY
‘Poetry can leap across time with just a line’
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At the deepest level I think of sexuality as desire, and that has not just to do with what is erotic, but to do with creation itself. What drives us to make a work of art, to create anything? It is fullness, a being in love, exuberance, against the face of all that we find unbearable, and the movement is the journey between these inner and outer worlds.
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Breath has to do with believability. The more unbelievable something is, the more we reach for our mouths.
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The idea of a neutral breast in India? A breast just casually hanging around, being a functional exocrine gland, enjoying the sun? Impossible.
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"BABY" | A SHORT STORY COMMISSIONED FOR BBC RADIO 4
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HOW TO WRITE AN ELEGY IN A YEAR OF DYING | ESSAY FOR SCROLL.IN
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SMALL DAYS AND NIGHTS IS SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2020 RSL ONDAATJE PRIZE
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INTERVIEW
WITH SOUTHEAST REVIEW
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GIRLS ARE COMING OUT OF THE WOODS IS SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2018 TED HUGHES AWARD!
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INTERVIEW WITH
STANCE ON DANCE
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REVIEW IN THE GUARDIAN
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Visitors to Ethiopia often remark on its quality of timelessness. Part of it has to do with the way it was isolated for so long, how steeped it is in tradition. But the real reason time is different here is because in 1582, when the most of the world switched from the Julian calendar to the Gregorian, Ethiopia decided not to. And so sunrise starts at 1 o’clock, Christmas falls in January, and it can successfully advertise 13 months of sunshine in the year.
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INTERVIEW WITH LITHUB
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ESSAY FOR VOGUE: DEC 2018
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ESSAY FOR MAGNUM PHOTOS: JAN 2019
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ESSAY FOR GRANTA: DEC 2018
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William Dalrymple Talks about our Cross-generational friendship in the August 2018 Issue of Vogue
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Rita Dove selects "RAIN AT THREE" from Girls are Coming out of the Woods for the NYT MAGAZINE (AUG 30, 2018)
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