Glitchwork
Will be published approx. on 16. April 2026
Book
Paperback/Softback
101 pages
978-1-0684880-2-3 (ISBN)
Description
Glitchwork tracks the uneven lineages of Central India, building on modernist legacies and reckoning with the spectres of the 1984 Bhopal disaster. Mantra Mukim's debut poetry collection is situated in a timeless, forested grid, poised on the verge of industrial erasure. This grid, a restless site of extraction and production, also brims with potential for lushness, fey ambience, and petite clearings.
Its three long poems consist of fragments on a mysterious Cold War 'plant', remixes of Surdas (the medieval-Braj poet), notes on palaeolithic hands, philology of the line, anomalies in a lunar-roving vehicle, and the origin myths of Raipur.
Its three long poems consist of fragments on a mysterious Cold War 'plant', remixes of Surdas (the medieval-Braj poet), notes on palaeolithic hands, philology of the line, anomalies in a lunar-roving vehicle, and the origin myths of Raipur.
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Language
English
Place of publication
United Kingdom
Dimensions
Height: 153 mm
Width: 235 mm
Thickness: 15 mm
Weight
170 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-0684880-2-3 (9781068488023)
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Person
Mantra Mukim is a poet and essayist from Raipur, India, and lives in Paris. He is the incoming Leverhulme Early Career Fellow (2025-28) at the Faculty of English, University of Oxford. His poetry and essays have appeared in Minor Literature, SpamZine, Datableed, Poetry Review, Hotel, Rialto, Modern Poetry in Translation, and Ludd Gang, while his writing on art and cinema has been published in MAP, Mubi Notebook, and The Caravan. His Hindi poems were featured and critically introduced in ???????? (Samavartan), and anthologised in ???? ?????? (Twelve Young Poets). He co-edits Almost Island.