Skinny Dipping in Tiger Country by Maithreyi Hughes Kate Carruthers Thomas - Maitreyabandhu

- Maitreyabandhu

Will Alexander

Performers are vampires: we feed off audiences

the erased

meditating on ecology

Skinny Dipping in Tiger Country by Maithreyi Hughes Kate Carruthers Thomas - MaitreyabandhuPublished 2nd July 2026 Across the nine interlinked sections of her debut collection, Maithreyi Hughes explores what it means to be vulnerable and curious in the wilderness of civilisation. Here, politics becomes an instinctive expression of morality; animals are fellow travellers; travel a form of detachment rather than escape. Myth and irony share a lens; belonging folds into longing. In 'Borrowed Cardigan', Hughes reflects on her time as a literary