three poems in Oxford Magazine Issue 459

three poems in Oxford Magazine Issue 459

Three poems from Rupam’s forthcoming collection ‘decolonising the broken heart’ featured in Oxford Magazine Issue 459 edited by Jane Griffiths. and you say she’s gone for good (for Jane Kenyon) the cyclonetook your home and yourwits last monsoon butthat’s not true –...
before the anointing

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...
longlisted in the 4th Estate Short Story Prize 2022

longlisted in the 4th Estate Short Story Prize 2022

The short story ‘Anatomy of Separation’ longlisted in the Guardian and 4th Estate Short Story Prize 2022. ‘Anatomy of Separation’ is the title story from Rupam’s forthcoming short story collection. Based on real friends’ lives, it is a story about a transgender...
bone journey

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

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,...