Skinny Dipping in Tiger Country by Maithreyi Hughes Pablo Neruda The accordion of time stretches

The accordion of time stretches across poems that deliver a sonic meditation on memory

‘The bloody mess of individuals – / plastic stuff outside an abandoned tent’

then light and shoot it so that it resembles heaven or hell

change and impermanence

Skinny Dipping in Tiger Country by Maithreyi Hughes Pablo Neruda The accordion of time stretchesPublished 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