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.

Tuesday, May 13, 2008

MAKING LOVE

Making love
she tastes the salt upon
his shoulder
in the afternoon he pounds
like the surf into her flesh


--R.K.SINGH

4 Comments:

Blogger wordcrafter said...

This is stunning.. the salt and the surf... touchingly sensorial. Came across you at the Spring/Summer haiku, but will come back to read you again.

3:12 AM  
Blogger R.K.SINGH said...

Thank you very much. I look forward to reading your comments.
R K

12:08 AM  
Blogger Poet-in-Residence said...

one imagines you don't get much sleep!

keep up the good work R K!

gwilym

9:58 AM  
Blogger R.K.SINGH said...

You're right, gwilym, I hardly get good or sound sleep. It has been ages since I slept well.
R K

2:56 AM  

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