Indian poetry in English
Indian English poetry is the oldest form of Indian English literature. Indian poets writing in English have succeeded to nativize or indianize English in order to reveal typical Indian situations. Henry Louis Vivian Derozio is considered the first poet in the lineage of Indian English poetry followed by Rabindranath Tagore, Sri Aurobindo, Sarojini Naidu, Michael Madhusudan Dutt, and Toru Dutt, among others. History. Nissim Ezekiel is considered to be a pioneering figure in modern Indian English Poetry.His first book, "A Time to Change", was published in 1952. The significant poets of the post-Derozio and  pre-Ezekiel times are Toru Dutt, Michael Madhusudan Dutt, Sarojini Naidu, Sri Aurobindo and Rabindranath Tagore. Some of the notable poets of Ezekiel's time are A. K. Ramanujan, R. Parthasarathy, Gieve Patel, Jayant Mahapatra, Dom Moraes, Kamala Das, Keki N. Daruwalla, Arvind Krishna Mehrotra, Shiv K. Kumar, Arun Kolatkar and Dilip Chitre. Rabindranath Tagore wrote primarily in Bengali and created a small body of work (mainly prose) in English and was responsible for the translations of his own work into English. Poets. Other notable 20th century poets of English poetry in India include Eunice De Souza, Gieve Patel, Kersy  Katrak and P. Lal among others. The younger generation of poets writing in English are Abhay K, Adil Jussawalla, A. J. Thomas, Anju Makhija, Anjum Hasan, Arundhathi Subramaniam, Hoshang Merchant, Madan Gopal Gandhi, Bibhu Padhi, C. P. Surendran, Dileep Jhaveri, Anuradha Bhattacharyya, Gopi Kottoor, Jayanta Mahapatra, Jeet Thayil, Sridala Swami, Jerry Pinto, Urvashi Bahuguna, K Srilata, K. V. Dominic, D. C. Chambial, T. Vasudeva Reddy, Makarand Paranjape, Akhil Katyal, Mani Rao, Meena Kandasamy, Menka Shivdasani, Manohar Shetty, Priya Sarukkai Chabria, Sharanya Manivannan, Ranjit Hoskote, Jaydeep Sarangi, Jayanthi Manoj Robin Ngangom, Nitoo Das, Rukmini Bhaya Nair, S. Anand, Salik Shah, Sudeep  Sen, Sukrita Paul Kumar, Nalini Priyadarshni, Vijay Nambisan, Syam Sudhakar, Vihang A. Naik, Tapan Kumar Pradhan, Amitabh Mitra and Yuyutsu Sharma among others. Modern expatriate Indian poets writing in English include Meena Alexander, Ravi Shankar, Sujata Bhatt, Tabish Khair, Vikram Seth and Vijay Seshadri among others. Anthologies. Notable anthologies of Indian English poetry include "Ten Twentieth-Century Indian Poets" (edited by R. Parthasarathy), "Three Indian Poets: Nissim Ezekiel, A K Ramanujan, Dom Moraes" (edited by Bruce Alvin King), "The Oxford India Anthology of Twelve Modern Indian Poets" (edited by Arvind Krishna Mehrotra), "'Reasons for Belonging: Fourteen Contemporary Indian Poets" (edited  by Ranjit Hoskote), "60 Indian Poets" (edited by Jeet Thayil), "Harper Collins Anthology of English Poetry" (edited by Sudeep Sen), "Anthology of Contemporary Indian Poetry" (edited by Menka Shivdasani, published by Michael Rothenberg in 2004); "Ten: The New Indian Poets" (edited and selected by Jayanta Mahapatra and Yuyutsu Sharma, New Delhi/Jaipur: Nirala Publications).