It is with great pleasure that we welcome Ms Urvashi Bahuguna as the 2018 Charles Wallace India Trust Visiting Research Fellow, who will be based at the School of English until May.
Urvashi Bahuguna’s debut poetry collection, Mudscope, was selected for the 2017 Emerging Poet’s Prize by Aimee Nezhukumatathil and will be published late 2018 by The Great Indian Poetry Collective. Aimee described Mudscopeas “charming and powerful [with the] terrain and radiant heart of these poems prickling and shimmering with a vibrancy hardly ever seen in a debut.”
Her essays on culture, books, and mental health have appeared or are forthcoming in OPEN Magazine, The Hindu Business Line, Scroll, The Wire, Brown Paper Bag, DailyO and others. Over the years, she has interviewed poets, novelists, and graphic novelists from India. In particular, she has focused on women and other marginal voices.
During her three month fellowship at the University of Kent, Urvashi will be working on a collection of poems focused on the changing landscape of India’s coasts due to climate change.