Category: Mani Rao

  • 📁 RETURN TO FIRST IMPRESSIONS📁 RETURN TO CHA REVIEW OF BOOKS AND FILMS Click HERE to read all entries in Cha on So That You Know. Mani Rao, So That You Know, HarperCollins India, 2025. 312 pgs. Referring to notes I made on Mani Rao’s newest poetry…

    [REVIEW] “A Prism of Time: The Shifting Passions of Mani Rao’s Poetry in 𝑆𝑜 𝑇ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑌𝑜𝑢 𝐾𝑛𝑜𝑤” by Jennifer Eagleton
  • 📁 RETURN TO FIRST IMPRESSIONS📁 RETURN TO CHA REVIEW OF BOOKS AND FILMS Click HERE to read all entries in Cha on So That You Know. Mani Rao, So That You Know, HarperCollins India, 2025. 312 pgs. “Isn’t it better to write poems about topics? On the…

    [REVIEW] “Haunted by Words, Hunted by Silence: Mani Rao’s Radical Intimacy in 𝑆𝑜 𝑇ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑌𝑜𝑢 𝐾𝑛𝑜𝑤” by Wani Nazir
  • Mani Rao, Grace V.S. Chin, Ankur Agarawal, Sushma Joshi A new issue of Mascara Literary Review, edited by Michelle Cahill, is out. It features poetry by Mani Rao and Grace Chin, fiction by Ankur Agarawal and creative non-fiction by Sushma Joshi.  || Mani…

    New updates on 5 Cha contributors: Mani Rao, Grace V.S. Chin, Ankur Agarawal, Sushma Joshi and Nicholas Y.B. Wong
  • Alison Wong Alison Wong, a poet and novelist whose first novel As the Earth Turns Silver won the 2010 New Zealand Post Book Award for Fiction and selected by the New Zealand Listener and the Sunday Star-Times as one of the…

    New updates on 6 Cha contributors: Alison Wong, Vinita Agrawal, Berit Ellingsen, Mani Rao, Rheea Mukherjee and Sumana Roy
  • Marc Vincenz, Mani Rao and Eleanor Goodman The April 2012 issue of Asymptote is now available and you can read Marc Vincenz‘s Mani Rao‘s and Eleanor Goodman‘s work in it. || Read Marc Vincenz’s Cha profile.  || Mani Rao’s poetry was published in Issue…

  • The October 2011 issue of  Asymptote is now live. It features Murakami, Milosz and Szirtes, Lydia Davis’s first Dutch translations, essays by Dale Peck, various Burmese poets, Piyush Daiya, primers on Croatian novels and Eileen Chang, their first English Poetry…

  • The July issue of  Asymptote is now live. This is the publication’s biggest and boldest issue to date. It features a new Upaniᚣad translation, master of the lyric novel Shen Congwen, “Ghalib Redux”, poems by TomaĹž Ĺ alamun, the philosophy of…

  • Reading on June 17 Toto Funds the Arts is delighted to invite you to a reading by poet and author Mani Rao of her radical, literary translation of the Bhagavad Gita She will be in conversation with Arshia Sattar Venue:…

  • Mani Rao‘s Bhagavad Gita: A Translation of the Poem will be out on 12th December, 2010. You can purchase a copy here and read an excerpt here. More information about the book:http://www.autumnhillbooks.org/bhagavad_gita.html  – – Mani Rao’s poetry was published in issue #1 of Cha. ––

  • Several Cha contributors have new works published in the latest issue (October 2010) of Mascara Literary Review. Read Fiona Sze-Lorrain’s three poems “Rendez-vous at Pont des Arts”, “Fragile” and “My Grandmother Waters the Moon”; Cyril Wong’s three poems “School Bus”,…

  • Five new poems by Mani Rao, “Brahma’s Moment”, “Monkey Puzzle”, “Shiva’s Digs”, “Panchali” and “For Pootana’s Sake”, are published in the July 2010 issue of The Brown Critique. Read them here. – – Mani Rao’s poetry was published in issue…

  • Mani Rao’s Ghostmasters (2010), published by Chameleon Press, is now available for purchase onine from Paddyfield here. Poems in Ghostmasters have featured in journals includingWasafiri, Washington Square, Meanjin, Tinfish, XCP, How2journal, 91st Meridian, Fourth River, Quay Journal, Filling Station, Oxford…

  • Ghostmasters (Hong Kong: Chameleon Press, 2010). ISBN-978-988-18623-1-0. Buy online from Paddyfield here. –Poems in Ghostmasters have featured in journals includingWasafiri, Washington Square, Meanjin, Tinfish, XCP, How2journal, 91st Meridian, Fourth River, Quay Journal, Filling Station, Oxford Magazine, Papertiger, In Posse Review,…

  • Mani Rao’s new poem “Geocity” is now published in the “Worry” issue of Holly Rose Review.–Mani Rao’s poetry was published in issue #1 of Cha. –

  • Mani Rao’s essay “Repetitiveness in Gita Translations” is now published in University of Iowa’s eXchanges: Journal of Literary Translation. Read the essay here. – Mani Rao’s poetry was published in issue #1 of Cha.

  • “Shorts” and “Drought”, two poems from Mani Rao‘s poetry collection, Ghostmasters, are now published in Asia Writes. Read the poems here. – Mani Rao’s poetry was published in issue #1 of Cha.

  • Softblow is back! Its September 2009 issue features new poetry by four poets. Read Cha contributor Mani Rao’s four new poems “End of Scene”, “Sporous”, “Shots” and “Bird Union” here. Cha also enjoyed Adam Strauss’s poems! Mani Rao’s poetry was…

  • Cha contributors’ poetry will be read aloud during the First Peng Chau Cultural Carnival. Do join us! Saturday 29th August 2009 Poetry reading session ONE 3:15-3:30 PM Agnes Lam (2 poems read by Rachel Chan)Kit Kelen (4 poems with Chinese…

  • (More information here.) Fifty-Fifty, the anthology edited by Xu Xi and published by Haven Books (Hong Kong), will be relaunched with a new cover. To celebrate Haven Books has teamed up with Pacific Coffee to bring the anthology to the…

  • Cha excitedly announces the launch of Not A Muse. Not A Muse is edited by Viki Holmes (Cha contributor) and Kate Rogers and published by Haven Books. The anthology includes poems by “over 100 sensational contributors from 24 countries including”.…

  • Mani Rao’s new poems “Something kids see in water” and “Sometimes a voice instead” are now published in the debut issue of Holly Rose Review. Do check out this interesting new literary publication. Mani Rao’s poetry was published in issue #1 of Cha.

  • Reid Mitchell, Mani Rao, and Eddie Tay have new works published in the latest issue of Asia Literary Review (September 2008). Read Reid Mitchell’s Cha profile.  Mani Rao’s poetry was published in issue #1 of Cha. Read Eddie Tay’s Cha…

  • Mani Rao‘s long poem “Sol” (a set of 5 poems) is published in the The Long Poem Issue of Tinfish (Issue 18). About Tinfish 18: Tinfish 18 offers an issue devoted to the Long Poem. Contributors include Mani Rao, Alysha…