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Glitchwork

£16.99

by Mantra Mukim

Glitchwork tracks the uneven lineages of Central India, building on modernist legacies and reckoning with the spectres of the 1984 Bhopal disaster. Mantra Mukim’s debut poetry collection is situated in a timeless, forested grid, poised on the verge of industrial erasure. This grid, a restless site of extraction and production, also brims with potential for lushness, fey ambience, and petite clearings.

Its three long poems consist of fragments on a mysterious Cold War ‘plant’, remixes of Surdas (the medieval-Braj poet), notes on palaeolithic hands, philology of the line, anomalies in a lunar-roving vehicle, and the origin myths of Raipur.

by Mantra Mukim

Glitchwork tracks the uneven lineages of Central India, building on modernist legacies and reckoning with the spectres of the 1984 Bhopal disaster. Mantra Mukim’s debut poetry collection is situated in a timeless, forested grid, poised on the verge of industrial erasure. This grid, a restless site of extraction and production, also brims with potential for lushness, fey ambience, and petite clearings.

Its three long poems consist of fragments on a mysterious Cold War ‘plant’, remixes of Surdas (the medieval-Braj poet), notes on palaeolithic hands, philology of the line, anomalies in a lunar-roving vehicle, and the origin myths of Raipur.

Praise:

‘Mukim's profound adaptation to the book as it is being written, and can never be written, moved me deeply. What a stunning writer he is.’ —Bhanu Kapil

‘Glitchwork remains endemic with haunting, with magical apostrophe, that weaves itself, with an intrinsic temperature that seems to dis-incline itself, powerfully in-scripting itself by means of seeming poetic ejecta baring insight by living lingual minimum.’ —Will Alexander

Bio:

Mantra Mukim is a poet and essayist from Raipur, India, currently based in Oxford. His work has appeared in Minor Literature, SpamZine, Datableed, Poetry Review, Hotel, and Rialto among other places. His Hindi poems have been featured in समावर्तन (Samavartan), and anthologised in युवा द्वादश (Twelve Young Poets). He co-edits Almost Island.

ISBN: 9781068488023
101 pages
Date published: 16/04/2026
Royal paperback

For fans of: Vidyan Ravinthiran, Anthony Vahni Capildeo, Bhanu Kapil, Mona Arshi