India, July 17 -- Memory, Aditya Tiwari believes, doesn't announce itself with grand gestures. It lingers instead in the ordinary: a locked house after a neighbour's death, the scent of perfume trapped inside a bottle, a pair of worn shoes, four flowers left standing in a vase. It's these seemingly insignificant relics that form the emotional architecture of 'All That's Left Behind', his latest poetry collection.

An award-winning poet, journalist and author, Tiwari has spent his career moving between reportage and reflection, writing for publications including the BBC, Vice, PinkNews and The Telegraph, while also documenting queer histories and charting his own through verse. If journalism, he says, teaches him to report the world as it ...