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...
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’ 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...
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,...
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,...
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...
