Description
Jayant Kashyap has published two previous pamphlets, Unaccomplished Cities (Ghost City Press, 2020) and Survival (Clare Songbirds, 2019), and a zine, Water (Skear Zines, 2021). He won the Young Poets International Competition (judged by Phoebe Stuckes) at the Wells Festival of Literature in 2021, and his poem ‘A Positively Violent Poem in Five Parts’ was a winner of the Poems to Solve the Climate Crisis challenge on Young Poets Network the same year and was later presented at COP26, the United Nations Climate Conference 2021. In 2021, he was also shortlisted for the New Poets Prize, and again in 2022. In 2022, one of his poems was nominated for Sundress Publications’ Best of the Net Anthology, and another in 2023. His work has also been nominated for the Pushcart Prize, and appears in POETRY, Magma, Arc, Acumen and Poetry Wales.