‘The White Trees’ was commended in the tree poetry challenge (http://ypn.poetrysociety.org.uk/workshop/begin-afresh-afresh-afresh-a-poetry-challenge/) on The (UK) Poetry Society’s Young Poets Network (http://www.youngpoetsnetwork.org.uk/) (YPN) in 2019. It was later animated by Rohit Gurumith Singh, and is available on YouTube here (https://youtu.be/IcIPPgql9Pc?si=nyZ4UOOdGvYDSIuY).
13 Dec 2025
Jayant Kashyap: 'Visits after dark'
‘Visits after dark’ is a sequence of three shorter poems building upon a rather old (incomplete) draft, which I expanded particularly to send to the Crow & Cross Keys (https://crowcrosskeys.com/2025/03/12/visits-after-dark-three-poems-jayant-kashyap/). I’d first learned about the magazine following publication of some of Amy Wolstenholme’s poems (https://crowcrosskeys.com/tag/amy-wolstenholme/) in 2021, and ‘Visits after dark’ appeared in March 2025.
6 Dec 2025
Jayant Kashyap: 'The Earth as a Woman Passively Smoking'
‘The Earth as a Woman Passively Smoking’ was published as part of the Australian Plumwood Mountain Journal’s “The Transformative Now (https://plumwoodmountain.com/poem/the-earth-as-a-woman-passively-smoking/)” issue in June 2023. The poem has an epigraph from Daniel Clark’s ‘Sixteen Haiku (https://poems.poetrysociety.org.uk/poems/sixteen-haiku/)’, and in the introduction to the issue, guest editor Kristen Lang praised Kashyap’s work (https://plumwoodmountain.com/poem/introduction-3/) for having the capability to become a “part of the tapestry of a given time.”
29 Nov 2025
Jayant Kashyap: 'My Mother Gives a Conservation Speech'
‘My Mother Gives a Conservation Speech’ first appeared in The Ilanot Review in 2023 (http://www.ilanotreview.com/parents-poetry-edition/mother-gives-conservation-speech/).
15 Nov 2025
Jayant Kashyap: 'Burning the Stamps'
‘Burning the Stamps’ dates back to 2018, if not further, which was when I was new to publishing poetry, and very affected by the very brilliant Agha Shahid Ali (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agha_Shahid_Ali)’s work (hence the mention here). At least sever years after having written the first draft of the poem, it appeared in the US-based Collateral in November 2025 (https://www.collateraljournal.com/poetry/jkashyap) as ‘On Burning the Stamps’.
8 Nov 2025
Jayant Kashyap: 'Pyre'
‘Pyre’ first appeared in The Bombay Literary Magazine’s 54th issue, in April 2023 (https://bombaylitmag.com/contribution/jayant-kashyap-issue-54/), and was praised for “an immersive experience.” It later appeared, in a slightly different form, in Kashyap’s New Poets Prize-winning third pamphlet Notes on Burials (https://poetrybusiness.co.uk/product/notes-on-burials/) (smith|doorstop, 2025).
The poem has Meg Dunley’s post from X (formerly Twitter) as epigraph: “Do birds always fly with purpose or also just for fun[?] (https://x.com/MegDunley/status/1604017340534124545)”
1 Nov 2025
Jayant Kashyap: 'A Positively Violent Poem in Five Parts'
‘A Positively Violent Poem in Five Parts’ won the second prize in the Poems to Solve the Climate Crisis challenge (https://ypn.poetrysociety.org.uk/workshop/poems-to-solve-the-climate-crisis-a-new-challenge-with-people-need-nature-louisa-adjoa-parker/) on Young Poets Network (https://ypn.poetrysociety.org.uk/) in 2021. This challenge was created in partnership with People Need Nature (https://peopleneednature.org.uk/), and set and judged by poet Louisa Adjoa Parker (https://poems.poetrysociety.org.uk/poets/louisa-adjoa-parker/).
It was later presented at COP26, the 2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference, in Glasgow (https://peopleneednature.org.uk/poetry-for-the-climate-cop26/), and featured as the UK Department for Education-commissioned KS4 ‘Poetry and nature’ resource (https://www.educationnaturepark.org.uk/resource/poetry-and-nature). In 2024 and ’25, two research papers also mentioned this poem, praising it for being “pre-empt[ive of] any idea of easy solutions (https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003383598-9)”, and noting it as “a good example of how a sophisticated structure can be combined with deep thought (https://vital.lib.tsu.ru/vital/access%20/manager/Repository/koha:001159601).”
25 Oct 2025
Jayant Kashyap: 'On milelong walks to look at closed windows every once in a while'
‘On milelong walks to look at closed windows every once in a while’ was published by Chismosa Press as part of their Volume 2 in 2019.
18 Oct 2025
Jayant Kashyap: 'Earth, Fire'
‘Earth, Fire’, written after Yvonne Reddick (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yvonne_Reddick)’s poem ‘Translating Mountains from the Gaelic (https://yvonnereddick.org/poems/translating-mountains-from-the-gaelic/)’, was the first prize-winner in the Young Poets Competition at the Wells Festival of Literature in 2021 (https://wellsfestivalofliterature.org.uk). The competition was judged by the poet Phoebe Stuckes.
11 Oct 2025
Jayant Kashyap: 'every other side of my town'
‘every other side of my town’ was part of PoetryM’app, Label Lit’s Irish National Poetry Day project in 2019.
4 Oct 2025
Jayant Kashyap: '’Twas a long summer of thin air'
‘’Twas a long summer of thin air’ first appeared in Ink Sweat & Tears, where it was the IST Pick of the Month for May 2021 (https://inksweatandtears.co.uk/ist-pick-of-the-month-may-2021/).
27 Sept 2025
Jayant Kashyap: 'Annotations on Microbes'
‘Annotations on Microbes’ first appeared in ‘Biophilia (https://www.wingedmoon.com/biophilia/jayant-kashyap)’ (The Winged Moon, 2025).
20 Sept 2025
Jayant Kashyap: 'Come over, this night—'
‘Come over, this night—’ was published in Rappahannock Review (https://rappahannockreview.com/issue-12-2/contents/poetry/)’s Issue 12.2: Spring 2025. It borrows from Faheem Abdullah and Rauhan Malik’s popular song ‘Ishq (https://open.spotify.com/track/7hDoxkN20lLb06zifzYnD2?si=378d4a262fad40ac)’.
17 Sept 2025
Jayant Kashyap: 'Warm Verbs'
‘Warm Verbs’ was first published as part of Full House Literary (https://www.fullhouseliterary.com/)’s Summer 2023 issue.
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