The Lie of the Land: An Anthology of Indian Poetry in English Edited by Goutam Karmakar is a valuable addition to the limited number of anthologies of Indian Poetry in English that have been gaining greater diversity as well as visiblity after the generation of Nissim Exekiel, Kamala Das, Jayanta Mahapatra, Arun Kolatkar, Keki N.Daruwala... and other pioneers. This anthology is an interesting mix of the old and the young practitioners of the genre and includes atleast a few poets not anthologized earlier.