Search for My Tongue Resources

Websites

British Bhatt

The British Council has put together a great page about Bhatt's life, including a timeline. Well, that was nice of them.

Read Her Own Press

Bhatt's publishers, Caracanet Press, provide more biography and links to her books.

Video

BBC Presents

This is a keen little video about "Search for My Tongue" that also includes Bhatt's own two cents on the poem.

Student Take

This poem seems to be a pretty popular one to assign to high school students. This is one of the better slideshow projects out there.

Audio

Triple Threat

Hear Bhatt read not one, not two, but three of her original poems here.

Images

Author-ly Pose

Here's Sujata Bhatt, striking a modified version of author's toothache pose—everyone puts their head in one hand like they have a toothache.

Mic Check

Check out our poet in action, about to deliver a reading.

Articles and Interviews

Interactive Interview

This is pretty cool. The Poetry Archive has developed an interactive video interview with Bhatt. Just click the questions you'd like her to answer.

Caracanet Wants to Know

Here's an interview Bhatt gave to her publishers.

Poem of the Week

The Guardian picked one of Bhatt's poems as part of this weekly feature.

Books

Collected Poems

Here's Bhatt's work, bundled together in one place.

Brunizem

Here's the book where "Search for My Tongue" first appeared.