Ankush Banerjee’s debut volume of poetry, An Essence of Eternity was published by Sahitya Akademi in 2016. His work appears in The Chakkar, Out of Print, Indian Literature, The Bombay Literary Magazine, Eclectica, Cha, Collateral, Jaggery Lit, The New Indian Express, and elsewhere, and appear in the following anthologies: Best Asian Poetry 2021 (Kitaab, 2021), Yearbook of Indian Poetry 2020, 2021, 2022 (Hawakaal), and Converse: Contemporary Poetry by Indians (Pippa Rann Books, 2022). You can find him on X: @ankushbanerji09 and Instagram: @banerjee.ankush99.
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Poetry by Ankush Banerjee: ‘Before anaesthesia shatters / the bough of your body, before the / moon overhead is a mouth of darkness, you / pray they fill the space between dislocated hip / & future with what you heard but / could never hold’