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Maithreyi Karnoor @maithreyikarnoor.bsky.social · 1h
Two years ago when I just arrived in the UK, I found my book in the National Library of Wales catalogue. But in a matter of months, my publisher folded and the book vanished from the shelves. I've written others since. Publishing has ups and downs. But you are a writer as long as you write :)
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Maithreyi Karnoor @maithreyikarnoor.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Indian dad, Welsh dad 😂
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Matthew Stewart @roguestrands.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
No way I can compete with the major poetry publishers who get collections stocked by bricks-and-mortar bookshops But I do have word of mouth and all you wonderful people here on Bluesky, pushing the numbers of readers of Whatever You Do, Just Don't far beyond the sales of the big boys. Thank you!
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Maithreyi Karnoor @maithreyikarnoor.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Came back from a short holiday in North Wales to see this. #GoodayNagar came out in Feb and going by book trends, I thought it had had its day in the sun and now it was time for me to write something else (I'm already working on a new novel and translating another). This was a pleasant surprise 😊
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Maithreyi Karnoor @maithreyikarnoor.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
The 60th anniversary of the Aberfan disaster is coming up. Wrote this poem when I first came to Wales four years ago. It's part of my collection #SkinnyDippinginTigerCountry. Profits have been put before lives throughout modern history. The cockiness with which it's done keeps growing.
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Maithreyi Karnoor @maithreyikarnoor.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Two stories from my collection 'Gooday Nagar' will be published as a chapbook by Eibonvale Press known for its high quality hardbounds of literary works that cannot be straitjacketed by genre: www.eibonvalepress.co.uk They are my best and funniest experiments with ideas. Here is a little glimpse.
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Maithreyi Karnoor @maithreyikarnoor.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
When making sense of the world seems futile, read ee cummings. It will still be futile -- just more beautiful.
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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 18/09/2026
What on earth is happening?
  This had become the new normal. RNLI crew members had been forced to take their permits off their cars after their tyres have been repeatedly slashed. Most of them have been pilloried at the school gates or turned away from local pubs. One man who worked in search and rescue had been beaten unconscious and hospitalised, recognised for TV interviews he had done.
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Maithreyi Karnoor @maithreyikarnoor.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
This is me four years ago on the Cardigan Bay dressed in a borrowed cardigan. The double reference is the inspiration for this poem which is now part of my book, a beautiful hardbound edition. valleypressuk.com/products/ski...
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Maithreyi Karnoor @maithreyikarnoor.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Happy Ganesh Chaturthi to those who celebrate without firecrackers, loud music and polluting idols. May Ganesh help us break the obstacles keeping us from becoming a gentler, kinder society. #GoodayNagar
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Maithreyi Karnoor @maithreyikarnoor.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Today is the 2nd anniversary of my arrival in Britain. The 11th Sept had the cheapest flights. I'm superstitious only when it suits me -- like believing everything will be alright because I woke up early 🙂 Wrote this poem as I lay suspended between Bangalore and Birmingham.
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Maithreyi Karnoor @maithreyikarnoor.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Drop everything. This is how it will happen. www.youtube.com/watch?v=i30j...
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Ex-Anthropic insider tells CNN how AI could kill all humans by 2030
YouTube video by CNN
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Maithreyi Karnoor @maithreyikarnoor.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Me: When you're not reciting a silly poem, you look a bit like Pierce Brosnan. Rhys: Pierce Brosnan? I wrote a poem about him. It goes like this.... BOND POEM Pierce Brosnan with a fork. Put in the microwave for 007 minutes. The name's Ping, James Ping.
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Maithreyi Karnoor @maithreyikarnoor.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
There's a special place in hell for those who hit 'reply all' on mass emails.
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Maithreyi Karnoor @maithreyikarnoor.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
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Maithreyi Karnoor @maithreyikarnoor.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
I blocked an ad asking me to donate to a janmashtami gou seva. So now, I'm getting ads to donate to build a new wudu platform in a New York mosque 🙄 I don't think AI will get the better of humans. It will just be as stupid, annoying, and destructive as us.
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Maithreyi Karnoor @maithreyikarnoor.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Found this beauty on a walk. It was sitting on the ground where it risked being trod on. I put my hand out and it got on without any trouble. I crushed a blackberry and tried to feed it. It wasn't interested and fluttered off into the forest. Silly me for thinking I could feed a butterfly 😅
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Maithreyi Karnoor @maithreyikarnoor.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
It has been that kind of week! 😅
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Maithreyi Karnoor @maithreyikarnoor.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
I got 2 rejections this week. I have a decent sense of discernment and I know these are good poems. But I also know it is a highly subjective thing. The only way to go on is to keep at it doggedly. I sent the same poems to other (bigger) places 🙂 #writerslife #womenwriters
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Maithreyi Karnoor @maithreyikarnoor.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Absolutely delighted to see this detailed, perceptive, and beautifully written review of Gooday Nagar in the latest issue of the Bangalore Review :) bangalorereview.com/2026/08/for-...
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For the Love of Story: Gooday Nagar by Maithreyi Karnoor - The Bangalore Review
Basudhara Roy reviews Maithreyi Karnoor’s Gooday Nagar, a surreal and sharply observed collection of stories rooted in contemporary India.
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Maithreyi Karnoor @maithreyikarnoor.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
In a quiet corner of #Machynlleth Rhys Hughes reads the poem Borrowed Cardigan from my collection Skinny Dipping in Tiger Country.
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Maithreyi Karnoor @maithreyikarnoor.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
The man is away promoting his latest trilogy (Trumpet Face, The Unfair Dinkum, and Oddity O'clock). He's back tomorrow. Until then, it's just the old girl and the tea. @rhysaurus.bsky.social
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Maithreyi Karnoor @maithreyikarnoor.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
My yesterday's Wordle score is a found poem 😂
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Maithreyi Karnoor @maithreyikarnoor.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
While outrage at the system that built him up and brought him down is the general mood of the day, I can't help but think individual resilience is all we have in the face of systemic injustice. For Jason Arday.
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Maithreyi Karnoor @maithreyikarnoor.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
The world is a hellish place. Keep calm and translate. 'The Mother, the Daughter, and the Polyglot' #KeepCalmAndTranslate #imtranslating #kannadaliterature #WomenAuthors #womentranslators
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Maithreyi Karnoor @maithreyikarnoor.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Happy Independence Day #skinnydippingintigercountry
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Maithreyi Karnoor @maithreyikarnoor.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
I hope to complete 'The Mother, the Daughter, and the Polyglot' (my Kannada novel 'Hettavara Neralu' in Kannada) by Dec 31. Self-translation is like having your kadubu and eating it too 😃 Here's a glimpse.... #womenintranslation #imtranslating #kannadaliterature #womenwritingfiction
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Vivek Nityananda @viveknityananda.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Solar eclipse theme pun: newspaper series on superstitions called "The Rahu Column"
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Maithreyi Karnoor @maithreyikarnoor.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Gave a quote or two to the Times of India about the state of Kannada lit in translation.
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Maithreyi Karnoor @maithreyikarnoor.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
For Women in Translation month, let's also celebrate the translators of women. Thank you Stanisław Barańczak and Clare Cavanagh for rendering Wislawa Szymborska into English so beautifully 🤓😍 #WomenInTranslationMonth
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Maithreyi Karnoor @maithreyikarnoor.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Wrote this poem 5 years ago. It's still relevant today, and I suspect it will continue to be so for a long time to come. From my book Skinny Dipping in Tiger Country. #skinnydippingintigercountry #IYKYK
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Maithreyi Karnoor @maithreyikarnoor.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Just found out I have a Wikipedia page 😊 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maithre...
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Maithreyi Karnoor - Wikipedia
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Maithreyi Karnoor @maithreyikarnoor.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
I was typing 'insanity' and it came out as 'insaniyat'. I think I'm enlightened--sans tree and meditation--in my own home whilst looking out of the window. I think it's time I replaced the 'i' at the end of my name with an 'a'.
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Maithreyi Karnoor @maithreyikarnoor.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
With Rhys Hughes' newest novel The Biscuit Thief and a biscuit I baked to celebrate its publishing :) Here's what they say about his 'most mischievous and surreal work': telos.co.uk/shop/horror-...
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Maithreyi Karnoor @maithreyikarnoor.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Now that that's settled, you may buy my book here: valleypressuk.com/products/ski...
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Maithreyi Karnoor @maithreyikarnoor.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Absolutely thrilled and very grateful for this kind endorsement of my poetry book 'Skinny Dipping in Tiger Country' by Rishi Dastidar 😊🙏
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Maithreyi Karnoor @maithreyikarnoor.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Here's a lovely introduction to my book complete with references to what's inside the book, the publisher's thoughts on what prompted them to accept it, and my barely contained glee at holding my first book of poems in my hands 🙂 #womenpoets #indianwriting valleypress.substack.com/p/would-you-...
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Would you go skinny dipping in tiger country?
From India to Wales – poetry of humour, tenderness and change
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Maithreyi Karnoor @maithreyikarnoor.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
I started the year as a one-book girl. Will end it as a four-book girl. Two novels (one in English and the other in Kannada), a collection of short stories and a collection of poems. Not too shabby, huh?
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Maithreyi Karnoor @maithreyikarnoor.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
My debut poetry book is published! My poems are published in Poetry Review, PN Review, Poetry London, Poetry Wales and were twice shortlisted for @montrealprize.bsky.social 'Skinny Dipping in Tiger Country' was in the making for the past 10 years and I'm very pleased with the outcome :)
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Maithreyi Karnoor @maithreyikarnoor.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
My 1st book of poetry - 4th in general - is arriving today and I can't contain my excitement. My husband, a veteran of book arrivals sat me down for the 'talk'. He lectured me on stoicism and I nodded gravely. Just like the time my mum told me how babies are born and I already knew 😊
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Maithreyi Karnoor @maithreyikarnoor.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
ನಿನ್ನೆ ವೇಲ್ಸಿನ ಕಾಡುಗುಡ್ಡೆಗಳಲ್ಲಿ ಸೈಕಲ್‌ ಓಡಿಸಿಕೊಂಡು ಹೋಗಿದ್ದೆ. ೧೫ ಮೈಲಿ ಆ ಹತ್ತು ಇಳಿವುಗಳ, ದಟ್ಟ, ಉದ್ದ, ಹಚ್ಚ ಹಸಿರು ಗಿಡಮರಗಳ ನಡುವಿನ ರಿಬ್ಬನ್ನಿನಂಥ ಸುರುಳಿ ಮರ್ಗದಲ್ಲಿ ಪೆಡಲ್ಲು ತುಳಿಯುತ್ತ ತುಳಿಯುತ್ತ ನನಗೆ ತುಂಬಾ ಇಷ್ಟವಾದ ಕುವೆಂಪುರವರ ʼಸದ್ದಿರದ ಪಸುರುಡೆಯ ಮಲೆನಾಡ ಬನಗಳಲಿʼ ಪದ್ಯ ನೆನಪಾಯಿತು. ಇದು ನನ್ನ ಇಂಗ್ಲೀಶ್‌ ಅನುವಾದ. ಹಾಡಿನ ಲಿಂಕ್‌ ಕೆಳಗಿದೆ.
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Maithreyi Karnoor @maithreyikarnoor.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Have six new poems in the July issue of Borderless. borderlessjournal.com/2026/07/14/s...
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Six Animal Poems by Maithreyi Karnoor
From Public Domain 1.Life Imitates Art ClassThe pigeon net in the balcony of the high-rise cuts up the view in neat little squaresas if arranging the urban landscape for a scale drawing of modern l…
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Maithreyi Karnoor @maithreyikarnoor.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
I'm translating my Kannada novel ಹೆತ್ತವರ ನೆರಳು into English as ʼThe Mother, the Daughter, and the Polyglotʼ. Here's a glimpse. #translatedfiction #KannadaFiction #womenintranslation #womenwritingfiction #indianfiction
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Maithreyi Karnoor @maithreyikarnoor.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
"King Shahryar, though a serial killer, understood how fiction collections work." I love a review that's a good piece of writing in its own right. If Anil Menon ever compiles his reviews into a book, I would like to review it :) frontline.thehindu.com/books/booksp...
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Kerala in "50 Stories": Paul Zacharia at his finest
A rich review of Paul Zacharia's landmark story collection.
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Maithreyi Karnoor @maithreyikarnoor.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
What do women want? To hear 'In-text citations count for words written' whispered in their ears.
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Maithreyi Karnoor @maithreyikarnoor.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
The only reason I'll accept I'm not Wendy Cope's reincarnation is that she's still her own incarnation.
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Maithreyi Karnoor @maithreyikarnoor.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
You mean hear about their prompts and LLM subscriptions? Commonwealth, get some common sense!
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Maithreyi Karnoor @maithreyikarnoor.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Marveling at how the metonymy for food in English is bread, and in Kannada it is rice (anna). #Languagemusings
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Maithreyi Karnoor @maithreyikarnoor.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
A friend sent me this review of Gooday Nagar in The Indian Express. It is behind a paywall and I can only hope it says good things :) indianexpress.com/article/book...
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Maithreyi Karnoor’s Gooday Nagar finds extraordinary stories in ordinary Indian lives
Gooday Nagar is reminiscent of RK Laxman’s Malgudi. Like Laxman’s characters, those in Gooday Nagar are also ambitious, jealous and morally questionable; essentially human.
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Maithreyi Karnoor @maithreyikarnoor.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
The story of UK heat wave.
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