Aditya Tiwari 🏳️‍🌈 🇮🇳 🇺🇸 🇬🇧 🇩🇪

International award-winning poet, writer & broadcaster. TEDx Speaker. Author of three books. “All That’s Left Behind” (poems) out now via @simonschusterin.

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I’m delighted to share that my forthcoming poetry collection, All That’s Left Behind, will be published on 5 June by @SimonSchusterIN.

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A formally inventive collection of lush, image-driven poems where memory, desire, and geography collide.

All That’s Left Behind is a collection of poems that traverses memory, displacement, queerness, love, and resistance. These poems inhabit the space between elegy and erasure, where rivers remember, cities burn, and the body becomes both archive and aftermath. A mother’s trench coat from 1983, a mango tree rooted in childhood, and a father’s black Bajaj scooter become charged emblems in a poetics of radical compression and startling imagery. Here, language is both refuge and rupture, where memory is rendered volatile yet enduring.

At once intimate and political, the collection meditates on what remains after love, departure, and naming, transforming silence into form and making erasure speak, cementing Aditya Tiwari (@aprilislush) as a distinctive contemporary voice in Indian poetry.

Reaching bookstores near you on 5th June 💛🌻

Cover design by Ahlawat Gunjan

#queerpoetry #indianpoets #poetry #bookstagram #pridemonthreads

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Really happy to be celebrating the launch of my new poetry collection, All That’s Left Behind, with the inimitable writer, politician, and friend @anishgawande. Join us at @kunzum in Delhi, on 10th July at 6:30 pm.

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We are delighted to invite you to the book launch of ‘All That’s Left Behind’ by Aditya Tiwari, a collection of poems that traverses memory, displacement, queerness, love, and resistance.

The author @aprilislush will be in conversation with writer and politician @anishgawande 🍃💗

📍@kunzum GK2, M Block Market
🗓️ Friday, 10th July
⏰ 6:30 PM

RSVP here: https://t.co/qLE0lhWkAZ

[Simon & Schuster India ✨ @SimonSchusterIN]

We are delighted to invite you to the book launch of ‘All That’s Left Behind’ by Aditya Tiwari, a collection of poems that traverses memory, displacement, queerness, love, and resistance.

The author @aprilislush will be in conversation with writer and politician @anishgawande 🍃💗

📍@kunzum GK2, M Block Market
🗓️ Friday, 10th July
⏰ 6:30 PM

RSVP here: https://t.co/qLE0lhWkAZ

[Aditya Tiwari 🏳️‍🌈 🇮🇳 🇺🇸 🇬🇧 🇩🇪 @aprilislush]

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What’s the connecting thread in Aditya Tiwari’s new collection of poems, you ask? It’s the thought that the things we lose don’t actually disappear. They simply change form 🍃💗

‘All That’s Left Behind’ by @aprilislush is OUT NOW! ✨

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Two of @mid_day ‘s young and talented queer voices defining modern India! Add ‘All That’s Left Behind’ by @aprilislush and ‘Homeless’ by K. Vaishali to your TBR shelf now 💗✨

#pridemonth #lgbtqia #queerbooks #readdiversebooks #pridebooks #indianauthors #poetry #comingoutstories #queerliterature

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I was invited by @Foyles to recommend a book that encapsulates “queer joy” for a feature celebrating the anthology. My pick was The Man Who Would Be Queen by Hoshang Merchant. 💛

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The inaugural collection in the new @VERVE_Books series, Queerphoria, a joyful and defiant queer-authored anthology, is out now, with £1 from every copy sold donated to @switchboardLGBT, the national LGBTQIA+ support line.

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A person lives through so many versions of themselves through the course of life. What remains of us from each of these versions?

For Aditya Tiwari, that question sits at the heart of ‘All That’s Left Behind,’ a poetry collection featuring meditations on grief, migration, queer life, family, and belonging.

Hailed as Read of the Week by @DeccanHerald ‘All That’s Left Behind’ by @aprilislush is OUT NOW! 💖🍃

#deccanherald #queerpoetry #readoftheweek #beautifulbookcovers #pridemonthreads #poetry #bookrecommendations

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Exciting news. All That’s Left Behind is going global this week, arriving on @AppleBooks + @AmazonKindle worldwide on June 23. The paperback is also available across bookstores in India, on @amazonIN, and via @SimonSchusterIN. 💚💚💚

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Get your copy of All That’s Left Behind in bookstores near you + via @simonschusterin + @amazonIN!!! 💛💛💛 #AmReading #Poetry #ReadingList #bookstagram

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Absolutely love seeing All That’s Left Behind (@simonschusterin) finding its way into readers’ homes and beside some very adorable companions.😍

Thank you for welcoming my book, and its poems, into your life. 💛

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Get your copy in bookstores near you + via @simonschusterin + @amazonIN!!! 💛💛💛 https://t.co/P34LPHpzGk

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My new book of poems, All That’s Left Behind (@simonschusterin) is featured in @deccanherald’s “Read of the Week” (June 14-June 20) selection, alongside a carefully curated list of new books worth reading right now. 😍😍😍

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Swipe to read all the raves and reviews so far for Aditya Tiwari’s latest book of poems ‘All That’s Left Behind’ — out now in bookstores near you! 🤩💗✨

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‘I want to be your bruised prayer’: Poems of love, queerness, and resistance https://t.co/a94vtXBpu9 via @scroll_in @simonschusterin.

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“I didn’t set out with a theme. I set out with a feeling I couldn’t shake: that the things we lose don’t actually disappear. They simply change form. A person becomes a smell. A city becomes a reflex. A relationship becomes the way you hold your coffee cup at 2 a.m. I’ve spent much of my adult life in transit–India, Britain, America, elsewhere, and every departure teaches you something about what you’re carrying and what you’re leaving behind. Slowly, I realised the collection was asking a single question: after love, grief, migration, or even a lifetime itself, what remains, and in what shape?”

— @aprilislush on the connecting thread in his new book of poems ‘All That’s Left Behind’ for @platformag

OUT NOW in bookstores near you! 💗✨

#poetrybooks #queerpoems #lovepoems #pridemonthbooks #bookstagram #indianauthors

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Delighted today to see my new poetry collection All That's Left Behind (@simonschusterin) featured in @mid_day’s “Pride Month reading list” - honoured to be in the fabulous company of fellow queer writers and friends including @thirunangai, K. Vaishali, and @santanu_bx!!! 💛

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Delighted to see All That's Left Behind, @simonschusterin featured in @the_hindu's weekly books roundup just two days after publication. I wasn't expecting this so soon, and it means more than I can say. If you've been meaning to pick up the book, perhaps this is your sign!