Like Blood on the Bitten Tongue

<h2>About the Book</h2><p><strong style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>A VIVID COLLECTION OF POEMS FROM ONE OF INDIA'S MOST BELOVED YOUNG POETS.</strong></p><p><em style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Like Blood on the Bitten Tongue</em><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> is a collection of poems in which beats an old city's heart visceral and noetic brash and gentle unyielding and evolving all at the same time. Akhil Katyal combines the Urdu and Hindi traditions of poetry writing with English forms and sensibilities. His bittersweet poems are shot through with empathy. In an increasingly cynical world Katyal's is a stirring and sincere voice.</span></p><p><br></p><h2>About the Author</h2><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Akhil Katyal is a writer based in Delhi. His second book of poems </span><em style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>How Many Countries Does the Indus Cross (2019)</em><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> won the Editor's Choice Award from The (Great) Indian Poetry Collective. He translated Ravish Kumar's </span><em style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Ishq Mein Shahar Hona as A City Happens in Love (2018)</em><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> for Speaking Tiger. He has co-edited </span><em style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>The World that Belongs to Us: An Anthology of Queer Poetry from South Asia</em><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> for HarperCollins India. He was the International Writing Fellow at the University of Iowa in Fall 2016. He teaches Creative Writing at Ambedkar University Delhi.</span></p><p><br></p><h2>About the Illustrator</h2><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Vishwajyoti Ghosh is a designer artist and graphic novelist. Author of the graphic novel </span><em style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Delhi Calm</em><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> and </span><em style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Times New Roman and Countrymen</em><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> a visual book of contemporary classified postcards Ghosh is also the curator of </span><em style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>This Side That Side: Restorying Partition</em><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> an anthology of graphic narratives on the Partition. Ghosh lives and works in Delhi.</span></p>