Interview | Tishani Doshi’s poems of disbelief in her new book, ‘Egrets, While War’
Poet Tishani Doshi discusses her new collection, 'Egrets, While War,' which uses bird imagery to explore themes of grief, climate change, and global conflict. She reflects on how nature provides a sense of wonder and lightness amidst the horrors of the modern world.
Why it matters
The interview highlights the role of literature and art in processing collective trauma and environmental anxiety.
Birds flit in and out of Tishani Doshi’s fifth poetry collection, Egrets, While War : “emerald-bodied” parakeets; “soft and earthbound” dodos; “limitless feathery blue” peacocks; Martha, the very last passenger pigeon in the world who died in 1914 at the Cincinnati Zoo, aged 29; egrets, those “feathered dinosaurs”, even an archaeopteryx, believed to be a transitional species between reptiles and birds, fossilised in a shallow lagoon.
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