introduction;
History and publishing circles;
the poets, their readers and the market;
towards a canon;
poetics and criticism;
ezekiel and his influence;
the poet's India i: ezekiel, ramanujan, patel, daruwalla, shiv kumar;
the opet's India II: peeradina, rodriues, de souza, shetty, silgardo;
women's voices: kamala das, de souza, silgardo;
two bilingual experimentalists kolatkar and chitre;
experimentalists II: mehrotra and mahapatra;
exile: ramanujan, sharat chandra, kumar, nazareth, seth
and return: parthasarathy and jussawalla;
the diaspora: agha shahid ali's tricultural nostalgia;
publishing 1987-99;
maturity: moraes, peeradina, ramanujan, patel, shettay, mehrotra, daruwalla, de souza, alexander;
new women poets: shivdasani, patel, D'souza, sambrani, dharker, divakaruni, bhatt;
new poets, styles, and feelings: hoskote, thyil, surendran, nambisan, merchant, roa, padhi, khair, prasad, ramakrishnan; chronology of singnificant publications, journals and events, 1947-99
life and career details of some poets;
anthologies, publishers and awards;
important authologized poems;
index