I seem to have brought the rains with me to this sleepy little town by the seaside but the rains here seem friendlier than anywhere else. It is no wonder every settler I meet tells me about how they came here and never went back. And those who are the local...
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 –...
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...
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’ 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...
