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{{short description|Indian poet and editor (born 1956)}}
'''Melanie Silgardo''' (born 1956) is an Indian poet and editor who lives in London. Raised by [[Goa|Goan]] Roman Catholic parents in [[Bombay]], she studied under [[Eunice de Souza]] and became one of India's major English-language poets in the 1970s. With fellow poets [[Santan Rodrigues]] and [[Raul D' Gama Rose]], she established the Newground cooperative which published their works. While studying in London, she published ''Skies of Design'' in 1985, which won the Asian Section of the Best First Book Commonwealth Poetry Prize. Until the mid-1990s, she worked at the feminist [[Virago Press]] before turning to creative writing and teaching.<ref name=camb>{{cite web|url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/history-of-indian-poetry-in-english/third-generation-melanie-silgardo-and-manohar-shetty/F75F3ED1CC1AC38417E3B81F0D6F3B1D|title=The Third Generation: Melanie Silgardo and Manohar Shetty|author=Sur, Sharanya|publisher=Cambridge University Press|date=March 2016|accessdate=1 October 2020 |language=}}</ref><ref name=humag>{{cite web|url=https://humag.co/features/melony-bethala|title=Poetry Communities and Indian Womanhood|author=Bethala, Melony|publisher=Verbal Arts Centre, Londonderry|date=June 2015|accessdate=1 October 2020 |language=}}</ref><ref name=shodh>{{cite web|url=https://shodhganga.inflibnet.ac.in/bitstream/10603/211629/8/08_chapter%204.pdf|title=The Modern Poets and their Background|publisher=Shodh Ganga|accessdate=1 October 2020 |language=}}</ref>

==Biography==
Born in 1956 in [[Mumbai|Bombay]], she studied English at the city's [[St. Xavier's College, Mumbai|St. Xavier's College]], graduating in 1976. She went on to earn an M.A. in English literature from the [[University of Mumbai]] in 1978.<ref name=camb/>
In the mid-1970s, together with Santan Rodrigues and Raul da Gama Rose, she established the cooperative Newground. Her early works were published in ''Three Poets – Melanie Silgardo, Santan Rodrigues, Raul d’ Gama Rose'' (1978).<ref name=shodh/> In 1985, while studying at the [[London College of Printing]], she published a second collection of poems, ''Skies of Design'', which won the Asian award under the Best First Book Commonwealth Poetry Prize.<ref name=camb/><ref name="Papke2008">{{cite book|last=Papke|first=Renate|title=Poems at the Edge of Differences: Mothering in New English Poetry by Women|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=A2ayKA7Dq8EC&pg=PA72|year=2008|publisher=Universitätsverlag Göttingen|isbn=978-3-940344-42-7|pages=72–}}</ref> From the late 1980s to the mid-1990s, she worked as commissioning editor for the feminist Virago Press where she consulted with clients of colour and developed a large collection of Arab women's contributions to English-language writing in ''Opening the Gates'' (1980). In 2012, together with de Souza, she edited anthology ''These My Words: the Penguin Book of Indian Poetry''. Although she has not published any further poetry, she is still considered to have played an important role in support of women's poetry, not only for her own work but for the interest she has devoted to women's writing.<ref name=humag/>

While Silgardo follows in the footsteps of Eunice De Souza, her poems are far more violent, as can be seen in her poem "Bombay", attacking the development of the city.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://poetly.substack.com/p/bombay|title=Bombay, Melanie Silgardo|publisher=Poetly|accessdate=1 October 2020 |language=}}</ref><ref name="Thayil2008">{{cite book|last=Thayil|first=Jeet|title=The Bloodaxe Book of Contemporary Indian Poets|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rJQgAQAAIAAJ|year=2008|publisher=Bloodaxe|isbn=978-1-85224-801-7}}</ref> De Souza herself finds that Silgardo's poems are "deeply emotional but never mawkish".<ref>{{cite web|url=https://shodhganga.inflibnet.ac.in/bitstream/10603/211629/5/05_chapter%201.pdf|title=Defining Modern Indian Poetry in English|publisher=Shodh Ganga|accessdate=1 October 2020 |language=}}</ref><ref name="Singh2004">{{cite book|last=Singh|first=Kanwar Dinesh|title=Feminism and Postfeminism: The Context of Modern Indian Women Poets Writing in English|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bQG52Iiv79sC&pg=PA99|year=2004|publisher=Sarup & Sons|isbn=978-81-7625-460-1|pages=99–}}</ref>

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