Egrets, While War

Tishani Doshi’s fifth collection is a lyric field guide to grief and resilience, where attention becomes a form of devotion, and intimacy, a quiet resistance. Her poems navigate the deep entanglements between environmental loss, ancestral memory, the slow transformations of ageing, and the devastations of war.

Egrets, While War is a lyric field guide to grief and resilience, where attention becomes a form of devotion, and intimacy, a quiet resistance.

The poems in Tishani Doshi’s fifth collection navigate the deep entanglements between environmental loss, ancestral memory, the slow transformations of ageing, and the devastations of war. Birds appear throughout these pages, not simply as subjects but as symbols and messengers, witnesses to war, extinction and exile. Mythic birds from the Ramayana fly alongside city pigeons and wild peacocks, forming a living archive of flight and disappearance. Here, love and desire emerge not as consolation, but as a form of radical presence – one of the last ways we remain tethered to the world. With lyric clarity and a gaze both wide and precise, Egrets, While War becomes a meditation on survival – of species, of history, of the heart.

Tishani Doshi's previous collection, A God at the Door, was shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best Collection.

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