Our featured publication for January and February is Notes on Burials by Jayant Kashyap, published by The Poetry Business. Notes on Burials won the New Poets Prize in 2024.

‘Jayant Kashyap’s Notes on Burials asks the reader to consider different types of burials and retrievals, including personal and etymological burials, in cool, reflective poems.‘ Holly Hopkins

‘In these tender poems, definitions, etymologies and repetitions perform a kind of excavation, digging to the root-places but also layering back up, hand over hand, word over word, to build a language of grief that feels fractured and true.’ Miriam Nash

‘Notes on Burials sits comfortably alongside the work of Seamus Heaney and Anne Carson.‘ The Madrid Review

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Prayer for My Mother as a Child

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Carrying

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The pastor said the graveyard has now sprouted flowers like a welcome

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Jayant Kashyap’s third pamphlet, Notes on Burials, won the Poetry Business New Poets Prize in 2024, for which he was shortlisted in 2021 and 2022. In 2021, Kashyap also won the Young Poets Competition at the Wells Festival of Literature, presented a poem at COP26, the United Nations Climate Conference, and published a zine, Water, with Skear Zines. He has published globally, including in such magazines as Poetry, Wasafiri, Poetry Northwest, The Ex-Puritan, Rabbit, Poetry London, The Bombay Literary Magazine, Poetry Wales, Arc Poetry Magazine, and elsewhere. Over the years, he has also published some art and nonfiction, and read poetry for Quarterly West and The Adroit Journal. Kashyap was awarded a Toto Award for Creative Writing in 2025, and was recently named an Acumen Young Poet.

Copies of Notes on Burials are available to purchase from The Poetry Business website, here.