writings
my greatest aim in all my creative attempts is to find the extraordinary in the everyday
books
Conundrums of Depiction, Reception and Witnessing in Art, Literature and Cinema
a collection of essays Rupam Baoni’s essay “Limbs, Torsos, Gains, Losses, and theArt of Chiaroscuro” appears in the volume of essaysConundrums of Depiction, Reception and Witnessing in Art, Literature and CinemaEdited by Pradipta MukherjeePublished: Pencraft...
unripe fruit at the window – COMING SOON!
'unripe fruit at the window' is a full-length book of poems and artworks (a Red River Publication) by Rupam Baoni.trailer praise for 'unripe fruit at the window'Language, in Baoni’s deft hands, turns to liquid – blood, tears, rivers – and flows between...
chronicles of entering my body
a poetry collection
‘an exploration of love, grief and relationships through poetry and painting’
Green, Red and Amber
a poetry collection
Invisible Borders: New Women’s Writing from Cornwall
Two of Rupam Baoni’s poems featured in the poetry anthology “Invisible Borders, New Women's Writing from Cornwall”, an anthology of poems and writings. Edited by Linda Cleary Published: Hypatia Publications September 2020 It is a collection of writing from 23 women...
Diaspora and Migration
a collection of essays and poetry
poetry
my language was my mother
The poem ‘my language was my mother’ from Rupam’s forthcoming collection ‘decolonising the broken heart’ was published in Wasafiri (Issue 123, Autumn 2025). Here Rupam Baoni mourns her mother tongue (‘there’s parts taken away/one-by-one-by-one from her, from//me too...
before the anointing
The poem ‘before the anointing’ from Rupam’s forthcoming collection ‘decolonising the broken heart’ published in Wasafiri Volume 38, Issue 3 “Politically conscious in a different way, Rupam Baoni’s poem ‘before the anointing’ is a claustrophobically layered...
bone journey
‘bone journey’ was on of the five finalists in the Queen Mary Wasafiri New Writing Prize 2020 and was longlisted in The National Poetry Competition 2019.bone journey there’s an art to arrangingbones, laying them togetherby way of size, shape, density,to form a human...
isle of wight & green onyxes
From the upcoming collection ‘decolonising the broken heart’. Published in Oxford Magazine Eighth Week Michaelmas Term, 2023 isle of wight & green onyxes … jadeite, jasper,amethyst, choral, lapis lazuli,opal, opalite, sea-carved with carelessprecision into angels,...
laws of conservation
From the upcoming collection ‘decolonising the broken heart’. Published in Oxford Magazine Eighth Week Michaelmas Term, 2023 laws of conservation I’ve been in mourning forever,grieving I’m told has a shelf life, so does love, it decomposesinto something slighter,...
and you say she’s gone for good
From the upcoming collection ‘decolonising the broken heart’. Published in Oxford Magazine Eighth Week Michaelmas Term, 2023 and you say she’s gone for good (for Jane Kenyon) the cyclonetook your home and yourwits last monsoon butthat’s not true – youwere done after...
bone island
Shortlisted: 2020 Bridport Poetry Prizebone island I take my bones each night andlay them one by one upon the cabinetby our bedstead, separating flats fromlongs or wedging the irregulars in betweento prop up the assortment of humanbulk; once I finish with the bones...
fiction
Sky-burial
‘Sky-burial’ from Rupam Baoni’s forthcoming short story collection was published in Wasafiri Volume 33, Issue 3.Our readers loved Sky-burial, and we received many emails this year about how it moved our audience. It was published in Issue 95, which is available to...