Yogesh Patel

Yogesh Patel’s latest poetry collection is The Rapids (The London Magazine, 2021). His poetry and criticism have appeared in The London Magazine, AGNI, PN Review, Indian Literature, and World Literature Today. His poems have also been archived aboard lunar missions and featured at the Royal Society of Literature, the National Poetry Library, NYU, and the BBC. He received an MBE for literature in the Queen’s New Year Honours list, 2020. He runs Skylark Publications UK and a nonprofit Word Massala project to promote poetry. Having been honored with the Freedom of the City of London, he has LP records, films, radio shows, a children’s book, fiction and nonfiction books, and three further poetry collections to his credit. (updated 11/2025)