Bhanu Kapil is a contemporary British Indian performance artist and poet. Born and raised in West London to Punjabi parents, Kapil recalls an early inclination toward poetry, composing her first verses as “poem(s) to the stars” as a young child….

Arundhati Subramaniam is a celebrated contemporary female poet. Born in Mumbai, 1973, she recalls, from a young age, wanting to ‘be around words – listen to them, utter them, play with them, and string them into patterns’.1.  After gaining her…