Born in Mumbai in 1971, Anand Thakore grew up in India and in the UK. He has spent most of his life in
Mumbai. His first collection of verse, entitled Waking in December appeared in 2001, followed
by Elephant Bathing, Mughal Sequence, Selected Poems, Seven Deaths and Four Scrolls and most
recently, In Praise of Bone (2023). In addition to being an anglophone poet, Thakore is also a Hindustani
classical vocalist by training. He has been performing music professionally since his twenties and has
devoted much of his life to the study, composition and teaching of Hindustani vocal music. He is the
founder of Harbour Line, a publishing collective, and of Kshitij, an interactive forum for musicians. He
lives in Mumbai where he divides his time between working on poems, teaching music and live
concerts.