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Robert Wood is a writer.

He is interested in dream, enlightenment, nature, suburbs and philosophy. Robert is a Malayali who lives in Boorloo with connections to the East Indian Ocean. He has worked as an academic, editor, unionist, cultural officer, and waiter; and volunteered for pacifist, environmental, human rights, refugee and free speech causes. Robert likes to swim in saltwater.

His archive is housed at the Kislak Centre for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts in Philadelphia.

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BOOKS

A Guide to Field and Wood, New Delhi: Red River, 2021
Redgate, New Delhi: Red River, 2020
Suburbanism, Melbourne: ASP, 2019
Concerning A Farm, Macau: Flying Island, 2017
History and the Poet, Melbourne: ASP, 2017




SELECTED POEMS

Six Poems, Sunflower Collective, 2021

Fifth Moon At Redgate, Plumwood Mountain, 2020

Redgate, Glasgow Review of Books, 2018
Four Poems, Softblow, 2018
Three Poems, Tiger Moth Review, 2018


^^^ with Ranjit Hoskote, Sampurna Chattarji and Mustansir Dalvi, Kitab Khana, Mumbai 2018

SELECTED INTERVIEWS

Sunil Bhandari, Red River Sessions, 2021
Danae Gibson, RTR FM, 2020

Amy Lin, BLARB, 2020

Five Questions, Liminal, 2020
Sourav Roy, Bengaluru Review, 2020
Hayley Megan French, Semaphore, 2019




SELECTED ESSAYS

Routes Home, Portside Review, 2021

Some Thoughts On Diversity, Liminal, 2020
All the Violence Within This, Semaphore, 2020

Tourist Realism, Los Angeles Review of Books, 2019




REVIEWS OF ROBERT’S WORK

Thriveni C Mysore, Plumwood Mountain, 2020

Baran Rostamian, Singapore Review of Books, 2020
Ni Fan, Limina, 2020
Chris Arnold, Westerly, 2019
Lyn Chatham, Plumwood Mountain, 2019




SELECTED ANTHOLOGIES

Poetry Yearbook, Kolkata: Hawakal, 2021

A Letter, A Poem, A Home, New Delhi: APM, 2020
LIMINAL x CFS, Melbourne: LIMINAL, 2020

Padmagandha and PEN Congress, Pune: PEN India, 2018
Of Indian Origin, Hyderabad: Orient Blackswan, 2018