In a Savile Row suit, you enthrall
your audience with witty anecdotes
of your bailiwick; the ensuing mic drop
to those charmed by your conduct may
impress some more. But I know your
flatus. Certain things don’t change:
Our smell and our strangeness.
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Sanjeev Sethi
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Sanjeev Sethi has authored eight poetry collections. His poems have been published in over thirty-five countries and appear in more than 500 journals and anthologies. He is the joint winner of the Full Fat Collection Competition-Deux, organized by the Hedgehog Poetry Press. Sethi is among the top 10 finalists for the 2021 Erbacce Prize. He is the recipient of the 2022 Ethos Literary Award. In 2023, he won the First Prize in a Poetry Competition by the National Defence Academy, Pune. He was conferred the 2023 Setu Award for poetic excellence. He lives in Mumbai, India.
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