Jeet Thayil’s latest poetry collection explores the search for hope in broken societies

The first part of the book, like much of Thayil's oeuvre, presents a fragmented examination of the self, often in urban landscapes that are decaying or dying The first part of the book, like much of Thayil's oeuvre, presents a fragmented examination of the self, often in urban landscapes that are decaying or dying Couplets that rhyme with 'Make in India' while critiquing contemporary life in India; hallucinatory descriptions of childbirth and a dead mother; quatrains on the agony of being separated from the love of your life.

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These are specimens from Jeet Thayil’s latest poetry anthology, I'll Have It Here, that blends the real with the absurd, explores how love and death walk hand-in-hand in modern life, and delves into what happens when the past haunts and the future irks.