Manisha Anjali is a writer, artist and PhD candidate.
Manisha Anjali
THE WAVES APPEAR AS REPEATING IMAGES
SHOT ON MINI DV IN SOLOMON ISLANDS & FIJI
Currently showing at ‘Insides Turing Blue’ at TCB Gallery,
curated by Autumn Royal and Hana Pera Aoke
29 August - 20 September 2026
Something about yourself
NAAG MOUNTAIN, Giramondo, 2024
An incantatory debut collection, Manisha Anjali’s Naag Mountain takes its shape in the brilliant language of dreams… Anjali’s lines are verdant, hungry, and thoroughly devastating; it is a book that calls to be read aloud… Anjali works to recover history through careful poetics, tracing the shadowed shapes of forgotten lives in a gesture reminiscent of Toni Morrison’s Beloved, or perhaps Sadiya Hartman’s Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments.
— Judges’ comments, The Stella Prize
As philosopher-poet Édouard Glissant once said: ‘We understand the world better if we tremble with it.’ Anjali’s Naag Mountain trembles with the material and immaterial, breathing the archive in with ganja smoke, and exhaling it in a vision that surges and pulses with the ocean. It is a reckoning without closure – a flowering rupture – all the while never forgetting that colonial history hasn’t ended, but merely changed form. In such a context, metamorphosis is not merely a metaphor. It is a strategy for survival.
— Terri Ann Quan Sing, Sydney Review of Books
THE SECOND SELF, Liminal Review of Books, 2026
email: manishaanjali [at] protonmail [dot] com
