A poetry workshop exploring nature through observation, imagination, and creative writing.

What if clouds, rivers, forests, flowers, and moonlight could speak to us through poetry? Led by poet Anamika, Nature, In Verse invites participants to discover how poets observe and reimagine the natural world through language. Through recitation, close reading, discussion, and creative writing, participants read, listen, reflect, and experiment with words.

Drawing from the English Romantic and Hindi Chhayavad traditions, participants explore selected poems by William Wordsworth, John Keats, Mahadevi Varma, and Jaishankar Prasad. Through these works, they discover how flowers, forests, rivers, clouds, and rain become poetic images and metaphors for emotion, memory, longing, wonder, and philosophical reflection.

The workshop then moves from reading to writing, encouraging participants to observe their surroundings and draw on sensory experiences and personal memories to experiment with imagery and metaphor. Participants compose their own poems, bringing together observation, imagination, memory, and language.

About the Facilitator

Anamika is an acclaimed Hindi poet, novelist, translator, and literary critic. A recipient of the Sahitya Akademi Award for Tokri Mein Digant and the Sahitya Akademi Bal Sahitya Puraskar for Their Gatha, she is widely recognised for her contributions to contemporary Indian literature. Through her writing and teaching, she brings together literature, philosophy, mythology, and lived experience, encouraging deeper engagement with poetry as a space for reflection and creative inquiry.

While you're here, explore KNMA's two ongoing exhibitions, Inheritors of Earth and In-Rhythm.

Through observation, experimentation, and creative practice, the workshops offer new ways to engage with exhibitions and artistic practices, bringing audiences in Delhi closer to art through making and participation.