Aditya Narayan

Aditya Narayan is a poet and performer whose work lives at the intersection of language, rhythm, and inheritance. Raised trilingual, he writes at the fault line between cultures, exploring migration, masculinity, naming, and the politics of voice. His poems are formally meticulous and musically charged, shaped by a deep engagement with metre and Indian classical rhythm. He is the 2025 Scottish National Slam Champion, winner of the 2025 Roundhouse Slam and the 2025 Loud Poets Grand Slam and has featured on BBC Radio 4’s The Verb. His debut pamphlet, My Name Is a Two-Person Sport (Art Riot Press, 2026), is a striking collection of poems centred on the experience of moving between countries and cultures, and the profound reshaping of identity that follows. It is a body of work that speaks to anyone who has ever felt split between worlds and is determined to claim all of them.