Vanishing Acts: New and Selected Poems, 1985–2005

The collection brings together poems from Hoskote’s earlier works along with new poetry. His writing experiments with varied poetic forms while examining history, language, displacement and the shifting nature of identity.

Ranjit Hoskote is an acclaimed Indian poet, translator, editor and cultural theorist. His work includes poetry collections and a translation of the fourteenth-century Kashmiri mystic Lal Ded.

Vanishing Acts presents a rich selection of Hoskote’s poetry from 1985 to 2005. The poems explore migrants, fugitives, memory, language and historical experience, capturing the anxieties and discoveries of a constantly changing self.