M P PRATHEESH is a poet and artist from Kerala, India. He has published several collections of poetry in Malayalam language. His texts and images were part of “let me come to your wounds; heal myself,” a cross-disciplinary art event curated by C F John. His poems and object/visual poems have been appeared or forthcoming at various places including Singing in the Dark (Penguin), Greening the Earth (Penguin, 2023) Portside Review, Modern Poetry in Translation, Oxford Anthology of Poetry, RIC Journal, Tiny Seed, Indianapolis Review, kavyabharati, Nationalpoetrymonth.ca (Angelhouse press), The Bombay Review, Keralakavitha, Guftugu, Experiment-O, Acropolis, Tiny Spoon, Door is a Jar, Ethelzine, True Copy, Indian Literature, and elsewhere. His recent books are Transfiguring Places, (Paperview Books, Portugal) and The Burial, (forthcoming from Osmosis press, UK). He is the recipient of Kedarnath Singh Memorial Poetry Prize, 2022.