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Jayant Kashyap is an Indian poet and academic. In 2021, his poem 'Earth, Fire', written after Yvonne Reddick's 'Translating Mountains from the Gaelic', won the Young Poets competition at the Wells Festival of Literature, judged by the poet Phoebe Stuckes. Kashyap's first pamphlet, Survival, was published by Clare Songbirds Publishing House in 2019, and his second, Unaccomplished Cities, was published by Ghost City Press in 2020. In 2021, Skear Zines published a limited-edition zine, Water. His third pamphlet, Notes on Burials, won the Poetry Business New Poets Prize in 2024, judged by the poet Holly Hopkins.

Works

Poetry

• Survival (Clare Songbirds, 2019)
• Unaccomplished Cities (Ghost City Press, 2020)
• Water (Skear Zines, 2021)

Awards

• 2021: Winner (First Prize), Young Poets competition, Wells Festival of Literature
• 2024: Winner, The Poetry Business New Poets Prize

References

1. ^ "2021 Young Poets". Wells Festival of Literature. Retrieved 2025-01-11.
2. "Translating Mountains from the Gaelic". Yvonne Reddick. Retrieved 2025-01-11.
3. "Water by Jayant Kashyap". Skear Zines. Retrieved 2025-01-11.
4. ^ "Notes on Burials". The Poetry Business. Retrieved 2025-01-11.

• Living people
• 21st-century Indian poets
• Indian poets