Publications
Gathering | women of colour on nature
PUBLISHING IN FEBRUARY 2024. “The beautiful rolling hills and coastlines are for all of us. Together, we can →
Skear Zines
Skear Zines responds to the writers we work with. It aims to resist homogenisation, and celebrate querenesse. It →
Places of Poetry
My poem ‘My Eyes’ is in the anthology – Places of Poetry : Mapping the Nation in Verse, →
Soil voicemails and other trans-species calls
This digital poetry piece was commissioned for the ‘Crossed Lines’ project in collaboration with the Science Museum Group project explores trans-species calling: insects leaving ‘voicemail’ messages in the soil for other insects; humans creating computer-generated whistles to telephone dolphins; and the parallel of telephone-tapping to eavesdropping by túngara frogs. →
Guardian Poem of the week: Microbial Museum
“Finding the poetry in scientific vocabulary, this work is alive to the marvels of its discoveries as well →
Butterfly Orchid highly commended in the Forward Poetry Prize
Very excited to announce that my poem Butterfly Orchid was highly commended in 2017 the Forward Poetry Prizes. →
Fossil – poetry book
Fossil explores the impact of human activity on climate change though a post-colonial lens and from the perspective of all life on earth including plants, creatures, elements and inanimate objects. “The poems in Fossil have been waiting millions of years to be born. Maya Chowdhry’s language erupts out of deep time, vital and vivid. This is powerful work.” Robert Minhinnick →
Ripple shortlisted for the 2015 Dot Award
Fabulous news that our work Ripple, with Sarah Hymas, a triptych of freestanding oversized artist books that use augmented reality, organic objects and poetic text to explore climate change, has been shortlisted for the 2015 Dot Award →
The Seamstress and the Global Garment
“Maya Chowdhry’s voice springs directly from the soul. It is authentic, sensuous and urgent. Although dreamlike, her poems are not vague. They rankle with precision and are fuellled by the collision of colonial and family history. Anger gives way to the generosity of love and the open heart of humour.” Sarah Hymas, Flax
“Chowdhry’s poems are uniquely alive to the possibilities of multiple identities, fused mother tongues and the interweaving of myths.” Saradha Soobrayen Chroma Journal →
Hallelujah for 50ft Women: poems about women’s relationship to their bodies
My poem genderality is in the Bloodaxe anthology: Hallelujah for 50ft Women: poems about women’s relationship to their →