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Jayant Kashyap

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Jayant Kashyap
Kashyap in 2023
BornPurnea, India
OccupationPoet,
Academic
LanguageEnglish
EducationBSc (Hons), 2023,[1]
IIT Indore MTech, 2025,
IIM Jammu MBA (pursuing)
GenrePoetry,
Creative nonfiction
Notable awardsToto Award for Creative Writing 2025,
The Poetry Business New Poets Prize 2024
Years active2017–present
RelativesPushpesh Kashyap (brother)[2]
Website
www.giantketchup.wordpress.com

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Jayant Kashyap is an India-based[5] poet. He is the author of three pamphlets, including Notes on Burials, for which he won the Poetry Business New Poets Prize in 2024.[6] In 2025, he received a Toto Award for Creative Writing.

Education

Kashyap has a bachelor's degree in microbiology, and an MTech degree in biomedical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology Indore.[7][8] As of September 2026, he is enrolled in the MBA in Healthcare programme at the Indian Institute of Management Jammu.[9]

Career

Kashyap began writing poetry in 2012,[10] and has been publishing actively since 2017,[11] but his work was first noticed in the following year, with his poem 'From Bletchley With Love' winning in the Bletchley Park poetry challenge on The Poetry Society's Young Poets Network.[12] Since then, he has published work in popular journals such as Poetry, Denver Quarterly, Poetry London,[13] New Welsh Review,[14] Poetry Northwest,[15] and Wasafiri.[16] Yashasvi Vachhani, writing about a set of poems published in The Bombay Literary Magazine, observes that "the reader does not even realise when they step out of their own skin to merge with the bird on the page."[17] The Bombay Literary Magazine also published Kashyap's poem about his namesake Jayanta, son of Indra, which Aswin Vijayan, the magazine's associate poetry editor, noted as an introduction of his "crow into the tradition of crows in anglophone Indian poetry", alongside the work of such poets as Arun Kolatkar.[18]

Kashyap, who has worked as a ghostwriter,[19] has also translated poetry, including in response to a challenge organised by Young Poets Network and Modern Poetry in Translation in 2021.[20]

Acclaim

Before Notes on Burials (2019–25)

Poet Julie Sampson praised Kashyap's "ability to match emotion with poetic-skill".[21] In 2021, his poem 'A Positively Violent Poem in Five Parts', the second prize winner in the Poems to Solve the Climate Crisis challenge on Young Poets Network,[22] was exhibited at COP26, the 2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference.[23][24] The UK Department for Education-commissioned Education Nature Park project's KS4 'Poetry and nature' resource features this poem,[25] and it has been analysed in several peer-reviewed articles.[26] In an essay titled 'Planetary precarity in performance ecopoetry: Poems to solve the climate crisis?' the author Jan Rupp notes Kashyap's poem for its "disjointed, multiperspectival account." Rupp says:

"Right from the start, Kashyap's poem pre-empts any idea of easy solutions. Even the young activists must realize that they are implicated in a complex web of human-nature relationality, where replacing swimming pools with trees will not simply restore nature and climate action must be negotiated collectively. [...] As text and performance, this negotiation and collaboration of climate activism – importantly extending beyond the page as the reader navigates a fragmented poetic score – is a process that Kashyap's poem helps engender and move forward, capitalizing on the pragmatics and poetics of performance ecopoetry."[27][28]

Another article on ecopoetry noted Kashyap's poem as "a good example of how a sophisticated structure can be combined with deep thought."[29]

In May 2021, his poem '’Twas a long summer of thin air' was the Ink Sweat & Tears Pick of the Month, with Kate Birch mentioning the poem as having "depth, beauty and nuance".[30] He later won the Young Poets competition at the Wells Festival of Literature for his poem 'Earth, Fire', selected by the poet Phoebe Stuckes.[31] In 2022 and 2023, his work was praised by the Young Poets Network in partnership with the Portland Japanese Garden[32] and Suffolk's Britten Pears Arts.[33] In June 2023, in her Introduction of the Plumwood Mountain Journal's issue titled 'The Transformative Now', guest editor Kristen Lang mentioned his work having the capability to become a "part of the tapestry of a given time."[34] The same year, Kashyap's poem 'Nilgai' received an honourable mention in the Dan Veach Prize for Younger Poets at the Atlanta Review.[35]

Kashyap received the New Poets Prize in 2024,[36] and a Toto Award for Creative Writing in 2025.[2] The latter was judged by Janice Pariat, Anil Menon, and Deepika Arwind.[37] He was also selected as an Acumen Young Poet in 2025,[38] and is the only India-based winner of both the Wells Festival of Literature's Young Poets competition and the New Poets Prize.

After Notes on Burials (2025– )

Following their previous collaboration in 2023, which appeared in Honey Literary,[39] Kashyap collaborated again with Lauren Hollingsworth-Smith, and the pair were longlisted in the inaugural DIRT Plantable Poetry Competition.[40][41] In July 2026, he was also shortlisted for the Osmosis Poetry Prize, in its second year and judged by the poet Rohan Chhetri.

Longer works

Pamphlets

Kashyap's debut pamphlet Survival was published by Clare Songbirds Publishing House in 2019 and the second, Unaccomplished Cities, by Ghost City Press in 2020. Vic Pickup, in her review, praised the latter for "revisiting key points of trauma in human history".[42]

After previous shortlistings (2021, '22),[37] he was awarded the 2024 Poetry Business New Poets Prize for his third pamphlet Notes on Burials, selected by the poet Holly Hopkins.[43] This collection of nineteen poems "that treat language as a living site"[44] was praised for the handling of a variety of styles "in a really accomplished way",[45] noted as a "witness to our greed as a race and the destruction [...] we leave behind",[46] and the Yorkshire Times described it as an "outstanding" collection "travers[ing] borders to encompass both the poet's own experience and the multiplying eye of his focus."[47][48] The pamphlet was praised by The Madrid Review, and placed "alongside the work of Seamus Heaney and Anne Carson".[1] Noted for the use of the lexical definition as a device,[49] it was Atrium Poetry's featured publication for the months of January and February in 2026.[50] The poet Rebecca McCutcheon praised it as a "collection that invites rereading",[51] and Alice Kate Mullen, in the PBS Bulletin, called it a "worthy and thought-provoking winner".[52] The poet Kim Moore, who judged the competition in 2021, praised this "wonderful pamphlet" for the presence of an occasional "surreal touch to the poems".[53]

Cover of Kashyap's Notes on Burials

Zine and essays

Kashyap also published a limited-edition zine Water with Skear Zines in 2021.[54] It was hailed as "a call to attention."[55] In an interview by Cheryl Moskowitz, Kashyap noted the Anthropocene as the period when humans can decide what the Earth looks like "in the future."[56] His essay, titled 'Writing Water, and on Its Need to Be Written About', was later published in The Mersey Review.[57]

His essays have also appeared in Potomac Review, The Hooghly Review, and elsewhere.

Personal life

Kashyap was born in Purnea in the Indian state of Bihar.[58] He is the younger of two sons to a father who is a retired schoolteacher and a homemaker mother, who passed away on 11 June 2024. Kashyap wrote about her death in his third pamphlet, Notes on Burials.[59][60]

Books

Poetry pamphlets

  • Survival (Clare Songbirds, 2019)
  • Unaccomplished Cities (Ghost City Press, 2020)
  • Water (Skear Zines, 2021)
  • Notes on Burials (The Poetry Business, 2025) ISBN 9781914914959 Search this book on .

Awards

  • 2021: First Prize, Young Poets competition, Wells Festival of Literature, for 'Earth, Fire'
  • 2024: The Poetry Business New Poets Prize, for Notes on Burials
  • 2025: Winner, Toto Awards for Creative Writing in English 2025
  • 2026: Shortlisted, the Osmosis Poetry Prize

See also

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Unearthing Meaning: Jayant Kashyap and 'Notes on Burials'". The Madrid Review. 2025-07-01. Retrieved 2025-09-04.[dead link]
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 "Toto Awards – Class of 2025". Toto Funds the Arts. 2025-02-17. Retrieved 2025-09-04.
  3. ↑ Kashyap, Jayant (2026). "A Positively Violent Poem in Five Parts". The earth that whispers at my feet: Poems from the People Need Nature challenges on Young Poets Network. London: The Poetry Society. pp. 19–20. ISBN 9781911046622. Retrieved 2026-02-25. Search this book on
  4. ↑ ""where were you when the seas were warming?": Young poets speak out against climate injustice at COP26" (PDF). The Poetry Society. 2021-10-01. Retrieved 2025-01-26.
  5. ↑ Brigley, Zoë (2023-12-08). "Reflecting on the Poetry Wales Winter Holiday Reading 28th November: Economic Stress". Poetry Wales. Retrieved 2026-09-23.
  6. ↑ Goyal, Sana, ed. (2025-08-21). "Among the Contributors". Wasafiri: International Contemporary Writing. Taylor & Francis / Informa UK Limited. 40 (3): 140–143. doi:10.1080/02690055.2025.2514334. Retrieved 2026-04-06.
  7. ↑ "Convocation Report 2025" (PDF). IIT Indore. Retrieved 2025-09-04.
  8. ↑ "Jayant Kashyap". Madras Courier. 9 November 2024. Retrieved 2025-01-12.
  9. ↑ Kashyap, Jayant (2026-09-13). "A Reading of a Narrative". Kashyap's Poetry Substack. Retrieved 2026-09-13.
  10. ↑ "Jayant Kashyap". Rigorous. 2 (2). 2018. Retrieved 2025-09-07.
  11. ↑ ""The Best Place for Young Poets": YPN at 10". Young Poets Network. Retrieved 2025-01-11.
  12. ↑ "From Bletchley With Love". Young Poets Network. Retrieved 2025-01-11.
  13. ↑ "Jayant Kashyap & Cia Mangat: Online pamphlet launch". TicketTailor. Retrieved 2026-08-19.
  14. ↑ Griffiths, Elizabeth; Davies, Gwen; Cleaver, Katherine (September 2023). New Welsh Reader. New Welsh Review. ISBN 9781913830236. Retrieved 2025-01-13. Search this book on
  15. ↑ Kashyap, Jayant (2025). Kuipers, Keetje, ed. "Incarnation". Poetry Northwest. 20 (1): 20. ISSN 0032-2113. Retrieved 2025-09-01.
  16. ↑ Kashyap, Jayant (2025). Goyal, Sana, ed. "Eve". Wasafiri. Taylor & Francis. 40 (3): 10-11. doi:10.1080/02690055.2025.2497625.
  17. ↑ "'Bird, at the Stroke of Midnight' and other poems". The Bombay Literary Magazine. 8 April 2023. Retrieved 2025-01-11.
  18. ↑ "'The Right Kind of Stealing' and Other Poems". The Bombay Literary Magazine. 12 August 2024. Retrieved 2025-01-11.
  19. ↑ "Contributor Spotlight: Interview with Jayant Kashyap". Rappahannock Review (10.1). November 2022. Retrieved 2026-01-28.
  20. ↑ "Young poets translate Isthmus Zapotec poet Irma Pineda". The Poetry Society. 2021-09-09. Retrieved 2025-09-06.
  21. ↑ Sues (28 February 2019). "Spring Showcase – March 2019". Poetry Space Ltd. Retrieved 2025-01-11.
  22. ↑ "People Need Nature/Young Poets Network Fourth Poetry Challenge. Winners and highly commended poems in "Poems to solve the Climate Crisis."". People Need Nature. 30 September 2021. Retrieved 2025-01-15.
  23. ↑ "Poems to Solve the Climate Crisis: Prize-Winning Young Poets to Perform at COP26". The Poetry Society. 2021-10-01. Retrieved 2025-01-11.
  24. ↑ "Poetry for the Climate: COP26". People Need Nature. 5 November 2021. Retrieved 2025-01-15.
  25. ↑ "Poetry power". National Education Nature Park. Retrieved 2025-01-11.
  26. ↑ "Introduction". The earth that whispers at my feet: Poems from the People Need Nature challenges on Young Poets Network. London: The Poetry Society. 2026. pp. 5–6. ISBN 9781911046622. Retrieved 2026-02-25. Search this book on
  27. ↑ Rupp, Jan (21 November 2024). "Planetary precarity in performance ecopoetry: Poems to solve the climate crisis?". In Wilson, Janet M.; Schmidt-Haberkamp, Barbara; Dwivedi, Om Prakash. Ecocritical Explorations of the Climate Crisis: Planetary Precarity and Future Habitability. New York: Routledge (Taylor & Francis). pp. 115–128. doi:10.4324/9781003383598-9. ISBN 9781003383598. Retrieved 2025-01-14. Search this book on
  28. ↑ Rupp, Jan (2025). "Figurations of Environmental Memory and World Writing in Literatures of the Global South". REAL: Yearbook of Research in English & American Literature. Tübingen: Narr Francke Attempto Verlag GmbH & Co. KG. 39 (1): 311–330. doi:10.24053/REAL-2024-0014. ISSN 0723-0338. Retrieved 2026-09-22.
  29. ↑ Zimina, Evgeniia; Sargsyan, Mariana (2025). "Artistic response to ecological problems in contemporary English-language ecopoetry". Tomsk State University Journal of Philology (94): 243–256. doi:10.17223/19986645/94/12.
  30. ↑ Birch, Kate (8 June 2021). "'Twas a long summer of thin air by Jayant Kashyap is the IS&T Pick of the Month for May 2021". Ink Sweat & Tears. Retrieved 2025-01-20.
  31. ↑ "2021 International Competition Results". Wells Festival of Literature. 2021-11-30. Retrieved 2026-01-28.
  32. ↑ "Poetry for Peace". The Poetry Society. 2022. Retrieved 2025-09-07.
  33. ↑ "Song Lyric Writing Challenge Winners Announced". The Poetry Society. 2023. Retrieved 2025-09-07.
  34. ↑ Lang, Kristen (ed.). "Introduction". Plumwood Mountain Journal. 10 (1). Retrieved 2025-09-06.
  35. ↑ "Carter Rekoske Is the 2023 Dan Veach Prize for Younger Poets Winner!". Atlanta Review. 11 October 2023. Retrieved 2025-01-11.
  36. ↑ "Charlie Jolley highly commended in the New Poets Prize 2024". Hive South Yorkshire. 21 July 2024. Retrieved 2025-01-11.
  37. ↑ 37.0 37.1 Kashyap, Jayant (2025). "Acknowledgements". Notes on Burials. Sheffield: The Poetry Business. p. 31. ISBN 9781914914959. Search this book on
  38. ↑ "Young Poet: Jayant Kashyap". Acumen. 2025-05-07. Retrieved 2025-09-06.
  39. ↑ "Animals: "Worm" by Jayant Kashyap and Lauren Hollingsworth-Smith". Honey Literary. 2024-07-30. Retrieved 2026-07-10.
  40. ↑ "Dirt Plantable Poetry Competition: June 1–14, 2026". Dialect Press. Retrieved 2026-07-10.
  41. ↑ Willitts, Alice (2026-07-09). "Longlists are for winners! If you're a flying ant". Dirt Plantable Poetry (Substack). Retrieved 2026-07-10.
  42. ↑ "Review by Vic Pickup of "Unaccomplished Cities" by Jayant Kashyap". Everybody's Reviewing. September 2020. Retrieved 2025-01-11.
  43. ↑ "Our 2024 competition winners!". The Poetry Business. 2024-07-15. Retrieved 2025-01-13.
  44. ↑ Schneider, Jennifer (2026-01-14). "Review of Notes on Burials by Jayant Kashyap". Mad Poets Society. Retrieved 2026-01-15.
  45. ↑ Fellows, Tim (2026-02-05). "Review – Jayant Kashyap – Notes on Burials". Tim Fellows Poetry. Retrieved 2026-02-05.
  46. ↑ "Notes on Burials with Jayant Kashyap". One Thousand Mornings. 2026-01-12. Retrieved 2026-01-12.
  47. ↑ Whitaker, Steve (2025-12-13). "Earth, Fire: Notes On Burials By Jayant Kashyap". Yorkshire Times. Retrieved 2025-12-13.
  48. ↑ Whitaker, Steve (2025-12-13). "Earth, Fire: Notes On Burials By Jayant Kashyap". Chimeo Limited. Retrieved 2025-12-14.
  49. ↑ Mancini, Lucas (2026-07-13). "Book Review: Dead Letters: Notes on "Notes on Burials" by Jayant Kashyap". Stanchion. Retrieved 2026-08-01.
  50. ↑ "Featured Publication – Notes on Burials by Jayant Kashyap". Atrium Poetry. 2026-01-04. Retrieved 2026-01-12.
  51. ↑ McCutcheon, Rebecca (2025-08-18). "Notes on Burials". eche. Retrieved 2025-09-05.
  52. ↑ Mullen, Alice (Kate), ed. (2025). "Pamphlet Reviews". Autumn Bulletin. Newcastle upon Tyne: Poetry Book Society: 52–53. ISBN 9781913129811.
  53. ↑ Moore, Kim (2026-02-09). "January Reading Diary". Shaw and Moore. Retrieved 2026-02-09.
  54. ↑ "Contributors". Poetry. 220 (4): 392–394. 2022. Retrieved 2026-02-03.
  55. ↑ "Water". The StoryGraph. Retrieved 2025-09-05.
  56. ↑ "What does the Anthropocene mean to you?". Magma Poetry. Retrieved 2025-01-12.
  57. ↑ "Writing Water, and on Its Need to Be Written About". The Mersey Review. Retrieved 2025-01-11.
  58. ↑ Kashyap, Jayant (2026-06-19). "Women Poets". Kashyap's Poetry Substack. Retrieved 2026-06-19.
  59. ↑ Kashyap, Jayant (2026-06-06). "A Year of 'Notes on Burials'". Kashyap's Poetry Substack. Retrieved 2026-06-07.
  60. ↑ Kashyap, Jayant (2026-07-02). "Poems about fathers". Kashyap's Poetry Substack. Retrieved 2026-07-10.


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