(Poets and Poetry) is a collection of commentaries and essays on select Odia poets and their poetry, by Dr. Mayadhar Mansinha (also written as Mansingh), a poet and litterateur in his own right. Odia, the language of some 44 million people residing in Odisha State, India. Odia, and Odisha, has a long heritage of culture and the written arts. This compilation of 20 essays is but a sample of the riches of Odia literature. There are essays and commentaries on noted poets of Odisha ̶ Gopala Krushna, Radhanatha, Madhusudana, Gangadhara, Nanda Kishora, Kuntala Kumari, Gopabandhu, Nilakantha, Godabarisha, and Padmacharana. Two poets, not from Odisha also make the list; their poetry belongs to the whole world, Rabindranath and Shakespeare.