R.K.SINGH

Collects all of my published poetry books. Also provides an uptodate view of my poetry, especially haiku and tanka.

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Location: Dhanbad, Jharkhand, India

Born, broughtup and educated in Varanasi, I am a university professor, teaching English language skills to students of earth and mineral sciences. I have authored over 150 articles,165 book reviews and 34 books, including Twelve collections of poems, among them, two jointly with U S Bahri, TWO POETS (1994) and COVER TO COVER (2002), and two others, EVERY STONE DROP PEBBLE (1999) jointly with Catherine Mire and Patricia Prime, and PACEM IN TERRIS (2003, a trilogy collection, containing my haiku collection PEDDLING DREAM). MY SILENCE AND OTHER SELECTED POEMS:1974-1994 (1996), ABOVE THE EARTH'S GREEN (1997), and THE RIVER RETURNS (2006) are my other three important poetry books. NEW INDIAN ENGLISH POETRY: AN ALTERNATIVE VOICE: R.K.SINGH (ed: I.K.Sharma) is the latest publication on my poetry. It contains 22 critical articles, six interviews and over a dozen review/comments by about 30 scholars.(Details from bookenclave@yahoo.com). I have received several awards and honours, including honorary Litt.D. from the World Academy of Arts and Culture, Taiwan, 1984, Michael Madhusudan Award, Calcutta, 1994 and Peace Museum Award from Ritsumeikan University, Kyoto, 1999.

Thursday, June 06, 2013

Moonlight

full moon light:
wrapped in cloudy sheet
nudity

--R.K.Singh

Tuesday, May 21, 2013

FRAYED WORRIES

each night

 peace is taken away

 by my father's shrieks

 and our useless effort

 to calm down

 our own frayed worries 

 

 --R K Singh

Monday, May 20, 2013

Tower

mosque's dome 
 lower than mobile towers'
 weaker god's signal

--R.K. Singh

Wednesday, May 01, 2013

SILENCE

Flowers don't bloom
in tribute to
builders' apathy

the trees are dying:
they too know they'll be felled
or the heat will kill

the concrete rises
calamity too will rise
none talk the ruins they bring


--R.K.Singh

Tuesday, April 23, 2013

Easter Season

not left alone
in midnight misery--
easter season

17 april 2013, Pune

RESURRECTION

in the wee hours
a short brush with death:
now live resurrection 

 17 april 2013

Thursday, March 07, 2013

I've lived...

I've lived 22700 days
awaiting  a day that could become
god's day in eden earth or within

or even my grandson's smile
on his first day in mother's arms

now i sit an empty boat
on a still river
and shake with quail dreams

--R.K.Singh

Tuesday, February 26, 2013

TAPROOM

watching chess
 in the taproom
 a novice

--R.K.Singh