Wingword Poetry Prize 2020 Anthology

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Feeling awfully lonely, utterly hopeless And terribly guilty, they stared hard At the gaping ground below before tying Their hands together to take the final plunge. “It’s nobody’s fault” they had written. Incorrect. For, we as a nation failed them. So, what plans have we – acts of atonement, To ensure their deaths have not gone in vain?

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the things we keep by Pritika Rao

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The 6:12 News by Lawrence Fray

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Unholy Women by Madhu Shruti Mukherjee

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An Indian Tragedy by Satish Pendharkar

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Malum in se by Sneha Hegde

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Creator and the Creation by Abhinav Shukla

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An ode to two girls by Karmishtha Krishna

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Combing Through by Garima Behal

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Beyond the letters by Dishika Deepak Iyer

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The Maid by Sampoorna Gonella

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Paralyzed by Niveditha Shree

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Evolution by Harshit Pratap

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The Play by Mandar R. Mutalikdesai

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The Difference by Laudeep Singh

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Collision by Indra Hatpins

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Hello by Shristi Sainani

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Bird died at the edge of NH-22 on a national holiday by Diya Kandhari

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A Letter to One Returning Home by Aditya Saha

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Crimson Cup by Prateek Joshi

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Pandemic Savations by Riniki Chakravarty Marwein

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Family Photograph by Nidhil V

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ice-cream summer by Meghna Chatterjee

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Riot by Elvin Lukose

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Streaming by Kanupriya Rathore

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Horror of Lights by Probal Basak

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Uniform by Susanna Correya

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The Language I belive in by Ilina Sinha

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Amma can’t cook by Nila Lenin

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I’ll play the blues for you by Asmi Sundru

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My Land is Bleeding by Ambika Raina

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Kali’s Dance by Navjyot Kaur Vilain

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Water’s Story by Sonali Pattnaik

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Matriarchal Patriarch by Neal Hall

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Camphor by Bhavya Maleotra

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The Killing Fields by Zarin Virji

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