In this book, Mehrotra has put together an unusually sensitive selection of fine verse in English by some of his best contemporaries. The poets who appear in this anthology are Nissim Ezekiel, Jayanta Mahapatra, A. K. Ramanujan, Arun Kolatkar, Keki N. Daruwalla, Dom Moraes, Dilip Chitre, Eunice de Souza, Adil Jussawalla, Agha Shahid Ali, Vikram Seth, and Manohar Shetty.