Debut: The Woman in This Poem Isn’t Lonely (Mukta Sambrani)

Debut: Snapshots (Sanjukta Dasgupta)

Debut: City Times (Vihang Naik)

Debut: The Sieve and Moments (K. S. Nongkynrih)

A Woman Speaks (Poile Sengupta’s first book of poetry)

Debut: Twenty-four Poems (Indrajit Hazra)

Debut: Stone to Fruit (Hoshang Merchant)

Near-death experience on a lecture tour of the USA forces P. Lal to stop his travels.

Translation of Shivaji Sawant’s Marathi classic Mrityunjaya by P. Lal and Nandini Nopany.

Debuts of poets from northeastern states of India (Nagaland and Manipur respectively): Songs That Tell (Temsula Ao) and Words and the Silence (Robin Ngangom).