Sanjeev Sethi
Sanjeev Sethi is an award-winning poet who has authored eight poetry collections. His poems have been published in forty countries and appear in over 600 journals and anthologies. He lives in Mumbai, India.
About Sanjeev Sethi
Sanjeev Sethi is an award-winning poet who has authored eight poetry collections. His poems have been published in forty countries and appear in over 600 journals and anthologies. Some credits: London Magazine, The Fortnightly Review, Stand Magazine, Erbacce Journal, 3:AM Magazine, London Grip, Morphrog, North Dakota Quarterly, Hamilton Stone Review, NOON | journal of the short poem, Postcolonial Text, and Indian Literature.
Sethi curated Dreich Planet India, an anthology for Hybriddreich, Scotland, in December 2022. In October 2025, he edited Fictile Feelings, a poetry special for The Hooghly Review. He is the joint winner of the Full Fat Collection Competition-Deux, organized by the Hedgehog Poetry Press, UK. He is the recipient of the 2022 Ethos Literary Award. In 2023, he won the First Prize in a Poetry Competition by the National Defence Academy, Pune. He was conferred the 2023 Setu Award, USA, for poetic excellence. He lives in Mumbai, India.
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Books by Sanjeev Sethi
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Upshot — poem unrhymed
"...Seeking meaning in meaninglessness..."
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Lore — poem unrhymed
"...erasing magic of marigolds..."
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Unthreading Emotions — poem unrhymed
"... how do I set asunder yours and mine?.."
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Forerunners — poem unrhymed
"...follow your feather..."
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Review — poem unrhymed
"...itemize flats on my floor..."
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Just Lines — poem unrhymed
Sanjeev Sethi is the author of three books of poetry. His most recent collection is "This Summer and That Summer" (Bloomsbury, 2015). His poems are in venues around the world.
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Cuniculus — poem unrhymed
"...Each has to whittle his or her way..."
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Grand Design — poem unrhymed
"...some get to glim others slip away..."
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Vector — poem unrhymed
"...It was as clean as this..."
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Chronicity — poem unrhymed
"...Nullities define our design..."
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Coition — poem unrhymed
"...The deluge took us in its thralldom..."
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Immaculacy — poem unrhymed
"...Shanty towns require no concert pitch..."
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Curtains — poem unrhymed
"...yes, craft as we were conscious of treacheries ..."
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Page — poem unrhymed
"...Crushproof heart: all you need..."
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Old Guard — poem unrhymed
"... This benign act hurts no one except..."
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Switcheroo — poem unrhymed
"...the essence of expression..."
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Portholes — poem unrhymed
"...Benignancy clothed in cravings is precarious..."
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Boding — poem unrhymed
"...Lies have no layers..."
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Airing — poem unrhymed
"...From this seam emerges melic tunes..."
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Lynchpin — poem unrhymed
"...Frame of mind determines the vocabulary..."
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Quaternaries — poem unrhymed
"...as opaque as the face...."
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Slimness — poem unrhymed
"...Let it be said we have split up..."
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Riffle — poem unrhymed
"...curious for credible anthems..."
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Vita — poem unrhymed
"Poems of my prelapsarian phase..."
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Contingence — poem unrhymed
"...at times words bruise us..."
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Unevenness — poem unrhymed
"Everyone is sometimes out of gas on grammar..."
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Questionary — poem unrhymed
"...Is the feeder more famished than the fed?..."
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The Planetary Plan — poem unrhymed
"...the sledge that will be heaved at you..."
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Reminiscences — poem unrhymed
"...It signaled a failing mind..."
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Console — poem unrhymed
"... frames are filled with closeups of film stars..."
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Coup — poem unrhymed
"...Loneliness is not about absences..."
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Bond — poem unrhymed
"...Love, this is, connection..."
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Umbrella — poem unrhymed
"...as a tenant of this revolving tableau..."
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Bifurcation — poem unrhymed
"...an invisible you joins me in my study..."
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Novitiate — poem unrhymed
"...Mentoring is akin to an invocation...."
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Percipiency — poem unrhymed
"...No-one knows the full story...."
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Vitreousness — poem unrhymed
"...Closeness is a curse..."
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Taukte — poem unrhymed
"...The ambient air re-echoes its rage..."
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2021 — poem unrhymed
"...We have altered vocabulary beyond repair..."
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Union of Ideas — poem unrhymed
"...Divinity willy-nilly has vested on them..."
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Vista — poem unrhymed
"...whenever emotions conquered the wall of reason..."
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Nit-Picker — poem unrhymed
"...Maybe I'm a troglodyte..."
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To the Day — poem unrhymed
"...unseen wounds leap from snuggery of my skin..."
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Nocturne — poem unrhymed
"...If the search is only for fault lines..."
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Continua — poem unrhymed
"...Without a rap or reason allies jink to other journeys..."
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Ballot — poem unrhymed
"...The familiarity of promise is like an earworm..."
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Métier — poem unrhymed
"...why do we thrive in thought?"
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Nonfiction — poem unrhymed
"Google and other griefs chase my working hours..."
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Triad — poem unrhymed
"...Others own the sky and sulk..."
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Rupture — poem unrhymed
"...Like statutes, it was open to interpretations..."
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Rejuvenation — poem unrhymed
"...In the scriptorium of mind, I seal our story..."
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Oliver and Lachlann — poem unrhymed
"... To cry is to converse..."
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Abortion — poem unrhymed
"...Previously I was supportive of poetry sourced from our rent..."
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Guru — poem unrhymed
"...spark of nuanced nothingness --"
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The Realpolitik Rider — poem unrhymed
"...When lawbreakers turn into lawmakers..."
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Decathexis — poem unrhymed
"...my aloneness leaves me unfurled..."
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Meta — poem unrhymed
"...Each sunrise-to-sunset, I test myself..."
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At the Escritoire — poem unrhymed
Sanjeev Sethi is published in over thirty countries. He has more than 1900 poems printed or posted in literary venues around the world.
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Commingler — poem unrhymed
"...Cadavers, too, come with a sell-by date...."
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Inner Guide — poem unrhymed
"...Is it right to supplicate God with a roll call?..."
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Empiricalness — poem unrhymed
"...does the universe allot us karmic cookies?.."
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Repetition — poem unrhymed
"...During the small hours of darkness, memory unbuttons herself ..."
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Cyclicality — poem unrhymed
"...scrubbing takes care of the sogginess..."
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Boner — poem unrhymed
"...Your playing possum concluded our connection..."
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Death of a Friend — poem unrhymed
"...should I be mournful or mollified..."
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Bon Voyage — poem unrhymed
"...you ignored the ignition our breath issued..."
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Mist — poem unrhymed
"...White heat and the ensuing calenture have lapsed..."
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Stew — poem unrhymed
"...I move on and on without motive..."
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Slalom — poem unrhymed
"...as if you’re running away from ruin..."
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After Reading a Young Poet — poem unrhymed
"...When I read you, I read myself..."
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Conversation with Self — poem unrhymed
"...Paradox and plurality are a part of our processes..."
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Mire — poem unrhymed
"...Low-rent experiences are allotted to most of us..."
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Words — poem unrhymed
"...some portions require redrafting..."
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Grip — poem unrhymed
"...Fail to face me in any real way..."
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Patterns — poem unrhymed
"...Planning is a holophrase for hiatus..."
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Volition — poem unrhymed
"...Are these fluctuations or the fallout of love?..."
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Methodized — poem unrhymed
"...We hurt others with burns that bruised us..."
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Guru Uncle — poem unrhymed
"...In a bout of boyish zeal, I bought you a book..."
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Daybook — poem unrhymed
"...Love needs restraint..."
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Pros — poem unrhymed
"Honeyed words take you nowhere..."
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Recollections — poem unrhymed
"... I imbibe your nosh-like confessions..."
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Catenation — poem unrhymed
"...I enjoy the interrogation..."
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Adumbration — poem unrhymed
"...In your yawn, oscitancy meets its end..."
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Vignettes — poem unrhymed
"A commoner never becomes king..."
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Monomania — poem unrhymed
"...your laurels coruscate..."
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Fervor — poem unrhymed
"... Candles draft the final chapter..."
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Flipbook — poem unrhymed
"... I tuned into an unconscious space..."
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Eventualities — poem unrhymed
"...what is the way out?..."
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Habitude — poem unrhymed
"...Have you nested alongside an aviary?..."
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Mind-Boggler — poem unrhymed
"We are ill-equipped to understand..."
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Harbor — poem unrhymed
"...To unbraid multiple strands requires hidden fingers..."
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Interment — poem unrhymed
"...that must have been another me..."
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Illation — poem unrhymed
"...how free is the press?.."
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Wordlessness — poem unrhymed
"...There is no dossier to back me..."